Hi all. Let me get this out of the way first: Thank you all for this site! It's a daily addiction to see the new gallery images, posts, marketplace and more! And thank you personally for reading this: I love the images posted here - great work - each portraying attempts & excellence in differing themes: Poser images blurred to photographic realism, Phenominally detailed Bryce images that MUST have taken far longer to create than render (which is saying alot these days), cartoonish characters that reflect a simple side of life, sketches done in the old way (by HAND!). All are worthy of the 9's and 10's that they receive - in their own right! However, discerning their own right is difficult. If we could, as a group, determine categories such as (Technicality/Detailism, Realism, Nature, Nudity, Themes, Inspirational, Emotional, Inciteful (i.e. debatable hot topics), Storyline (i.e. KromekatandCurio's wonderful sets), and more), we would have ways to search the great database for these. Now, I've been mostly of the mind that RATINGS are simply wrong for art. How can anyone qualify putting a 5 or 7 on anything? (Boy the NEXT post better be a challenge to make it better! =) ) We are ALL at different stages in learning & exercising our capabilities. Just because someone was going for a simple look (on purpose) and the viewer expected a complex one, or vice versa, gets you a lower rating. However, I would love to see (in the 3000+ pictures available) the ones that others may 'recommend' for me to see. "Most viewed" slants toward nudity (which is fine in it's own right). "Best rated" shows the overall, but not recent, and not relevant to any particular topic. So, we are back to ratings, if taken in whole, or are we? And if so, how could we tell what is being rated? Could multiple categories be rated, or at least identified for global searching? Then we need to consider keeping the overall rating (which is the current rating retrospectively) since it wouldn't be easy, or fair, to go backwards through the list and re-rate or re-categorize history. These are the questions and challenges that may form in considering categories. At the least, I would suggest global keywords that all submittors could 'checkmark' to allow for easier searching. But the first question is - what should those searchable keywords / categorize be? Thank you, Jim Gale

Thanks for the feedback Jim. Very good input.