If you believe that I am part of a "clique" as you call it - then you are right. And I really enjoy being a part of a nice group. But if you believe that I am constrained to that group then you are totally wrong. My group has found its members by similarity in tastes (among other reasons). I like to comment on images that appeal me, be they Xenodream, Ultrafractal, Bryce, or whatever was used to create them, with or without post-processing. This grouping "of a dozen or so individuals" in commenting each others images is IMO a matter of taste, not of forming a clique or of elitism. And it is more a matter of chance. I do not comment on all my clique members' images and vice versa. And please don't use such difficult words as "ostracizing" when you address me - the stupid non-native speaker that I am... I know that the world is a bad place, and the war of Ultrafractal against Fractint is one of the highlights in the history of evil.

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