I agree with Allen9. My last pic here got over 100 views and zip comments but over on 3DC it got 55 views and 13 comments from artists whose work I respect. Good, bad or indifferent people don't seem to leave comments here even if you encourage them to do so. I learn a lot about my work just reading comments as everybody will see something different in an image and it encourages me to stretch my skills more. For myself, I don't comment/critique very often simply because I don't feel I'm qualified to do so as I've only been doing CG for about 6 mos. Also, if you post your work you can't expect everybody to love it and there are some very immature individuals who will leave rude comments because they can. The bottom line is do I like the image? If I do, then rude comments don't bother me. But I think the numerical rating system is worthless. I usually turn it off on my images and I don't rate images I look at. Just my opinion. ;) Cie