With IMHO firmly in place, on I go...

Well, I think that there are a number of things with gallery comments...

Some who comment want to show their support for whoever posted the image, which is well-meant and almost always well-received :) Some people who post images don't really respond well to critique, no matter how gently phrased, so commenting becomes a bit of a "walking on eggshells" minefield (to ridiculously overwork some cliches.) It's that balance that's difficult to get right when you aren't actually face to face with the artist that makes these things, so it is hard to judge right. I guess most people commenting tend to play safe.

I know that when I remove a picture following critique, it means that I agree with the critique and took it down to re-work it. It almost certainly comes across as petulant sulking, but is really an admission that the critique offered was on the money and that I need to work harder in order to improve whatever it was that I overlooked / ****ed up.