I am relatively new, uploaded my first image in January, I though maybe a newbie point of view could be of some interest.

The comment system, whatever its merits and/or faults is invented to solve a problem. The problem (that is worldwide) is the following: Everybody likes to get comments but is generally too lazy to give comments.

So if you have been around and asked you know that there is nowhere else you get any comments. Renderosity is the only place where it works. And it works by FORCING people to comment, ie if you want comments you HAVE TO give comments.

So before you critize, please point to some place where it works better. That will be difficult as you may discern.