i think it is a valid question, and since i am rather new to reading the forum(though i have been looking at the galleries for several months now), then it is a new one on me. If i am looking at the "What's New" stuff(which i only rarely do), i will click on it if the thumbnail looks interesting or if the title is interesting to me or if the screen name of the person is interesting to me. The galleries i most often look at though come from an entirely different direction, or lead in one i guess. Usually if someone comments on something i have done, i will go look through their gallery to see what they have done as well. i do searches in the gallery for people and often the search engine will give me not only their work but work they have commented on or work where the credits mentioned their name, etc. and i often go off on tangents from there, clicking on the items of the people they too commented on to see what they saw and what they had to say about it. The reason i comment on something is because it moves something in me, causes an emotion in me, sometimes a "negative" one, more often a "positive" one, or it causes me to think in a different direction than i previously was thinking or inspires me to do something a different way. i don't know the reasons other people click on work but would be interested in finding out. i would also be interested in what causes someone to click on one image of a submitter but not another one by the same submitter. i guess that seems off to me though because i usually look at personal galleries much more often than i do at general galleries. Anyway .. that's all i guess i have to say at the moment .. lol. Namaste, odyssey