I think we're missing the boat here. The point of leaving a rude comment is to leave a rude comment. The person who does so thinks differently about it than we all do. To them it's more than likely fun, so advising them to treat the gallery pics as art will be of little value. They enjoy being rude, and discussions like this probably please them -- they know they're gettng under your skin. What you more than likely have is an influx of children who think "bad" words and bad manners are hilarious. "Weee--I used the f-word in a sentence!" I'd like to see an "idiot" filter on the gallery pics, so when you're sent that ebot message about a gallery comment it reads "so-and-so left a stupid comment about your gallery image." Mike