I hear you... when I post one of my music productions (other sites), and renders here, I can spot, canned fake comments and I dont know why people bother doing that.

I wanna see comments like "Great effort, I would recommend  you change the lighting this way, because...."

I only comment and rate on images that I can see time and effort was put into and overall looks good to me.  If I see an image that you can tell they just got into 3D or whatever, I ignore it and will comment in the future when they start getting good at it.

I dont find myself compeled to comment back on someone who has left a comment on my art, I will check to see what kind of art the commenter has, and If I like what I see I will comment back and rate.

In regards to the Gallery and what is featured, it is hard to ingore that it is Poser heavy, and this is nothing new, I've seen heated topics regarding the subject many years ago in these forums.

Personaly, I dont care for poser renders, there are very good ones out there, but the majority is simply buy content, pose and render, and I dont know if you realise, that there is a big market of adult websites that feature adult images that you can clearly tell were done in poser.

Now on the topic of rating/comments, I noticed the time of day also seems to have an influence on how many comments/votes you get.

Also the commenting on Pal's thing is true, I've seen tons of comments on images and wondered, if something was wrong with my eyes, because what I was seeing, and what the comments were didnt match.