I join with shailraj and Joe...
Obviously, being just about the first one who decided to join here...with comments, and on my own for doing so for quite a long while, this request from shailraj is dear to my own ears -
and I thank Joe and Shailraj for sharing my idea of it here, and showing it with your own involvement at comments yourselves -
And, it's not necessary to be a master at everything in photography to do so, or speak english the best way possible -
For my part, a comment on my picture, beeing only what conveys my picture or not to someone here, is in itself the best incentive to improve to another level, if possible, or to feel we have already reach some...that is after all the real challenge for oneself, not just show a picture for the sake of doing it : that is my feeling about it -
Also, it's not really possible to always give a comment to all pictures shown : it requires much time, that we don't have for it, too often, most of us - This is my case : as on another hand, I spend much of my time left for this new "hobby" of mine : photography : to learn as much as I can, wich is in itself much more time consuming that I knew it would be

- thks in a way I did'nt know about it to start with
ratings or not : that's not the essential to me at all - In fact, it seems we all decided to give a 10, or at worse a 9, when we got interested by a picture, then only the addition of more comments and/or ratings on pictures already rated or not, can provide a more or less significance to the rating feature, imho - Even without comments added or provided on a given picture, this is rather easy to use, and does'nt require a lot of time.
to rate a picture according to the usual division of points for technic, compo, editing...does'nt seem realistic to me in fact : as this can be done only by pros in every respect of the technic of photoraphy - And even so, there will be from them even, a part left for subjective appreciation : like mainly from about any jury of any kind -
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Nevertheless, still being very proud of my choice of this forum, designed to be friendly, from the begining and that shows very much, as everyone from any place or country, is received here the same, and comes with the idea of sharing as well, at which ever level one is : this is something I'm very proud and happy to be sharing with all here, before all maybe -
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BY THE WAY : no time to go to "my profile" - I went to it with a wrong click of the mouse, by accident, today .... so I left a message there to all my friends and supporters to whom I never answered only because "I've never time to go to MY PROFILE or check my gallery, that should be re-done" - So, I choose to focus on COMMENTS, over it, at the time beeing -