Carol,
Good question. Thank you for asking. I am probably more conservative than most, but the risk to benefit doesn't work for me. Only a couple of times have I seen it start to 'run wild.' Praising in the open forum is almost always great, but the possibility of providing too much validation to the challenges sometimes brings an attitude (out of the group) that the class requirements should be changed instead and diverts the conversation. Just my two cents... ;-]
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt