At least on the old site one never felt restricted in calling a spade a spade, like saying that you thought that a picture had the artistic merit and aesthetics of a cold rice pudding. That's part of the problem with this site, everybody tip-toes around frightened to death of ruffling a few feathers when it comes to commenting.
Bring back Shelfy he'd liven things up! Mind you he's doing a good job at that elsewhere.
