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I'm afraid, this seems to be a rather typical comment from you, Sojar. May I also join P7rv in requesting you share any useful feedback, either positive or negative, about our works on YC? I recall reading that you identify yourself as one of the better-known composers in your country, yet you rarely offer criticism, preferring, instead, to post these types of comments in which, often, the only point you raise is a perceived badly chosen category of submission. Yet, this is a site for, wait for it, young composers, who have more to learn and would much rather hear these constructive thoughts from you and your students instead of those which I have already described. At the moment, YC members seem to benefit your students by showing them "hot NOT to compose". I'd like to see the rest of us on YC feel some of this benefit.

All this talk about "How NOT to compose" has reminded me of a book I remember I had long ago read called "How NOT to play chess"! I wonder whether that negative approach is really effective by the way. I would think one actually learns from positive examples, rather than from identifying and avoiding negative ones.

To be fair, I've received my fair share of useful reviews (along with not-so-useful and even bashful ones from a few other members). I can tell YC's influence in my own compositions by the way I have been increasingly willing to try new things in music. Perhaps someone might say I don't really know what I'm doing in terms of musical theory or the "common practice language", yet I've felt that my works have taken greater risks since they began to be exposed to YC. Also, I've heard a few quality works by several other members which in turn have opened my eyes to things I barely deemed possible. Granted, we have no major, estabilished composers in our ranks (Sojar being perhaps the best known, at least in his home Slovenia) - but yet we have been able to influence each other to some degree. Hopefully I'm not influencing anyone into mediocrity.

Well, if you are finding so many "flaws" I think it would be a discourtesy not to post specifically what you mean in a review.