Jack - I see where you're coming from. You know that little "online for x minutes" thingy up in teh upper RH corner of the page? Why not just total that up, and once the total comes to, oh, 3000 minutes in a minimum of 25 different sessions (that's 50 hours of 2-hour sessions in total), then a member is eligible to vote. The whole thing can be consolidated in roughly 300 lines of code, and integrated as a module that all votings and polls must pass through. It could be something to shoot for as a member, and a way to prove you're "not a newbie" or something. Even if a clone were to try to circumvent it (like, say, some artist gets his entire yahoo newsgroup to register and cast a vote), they would have to login at least 25 times (or so) to vote for something, evne the "Hot 20." It would take all the clone accounts a long time to gain eligibility, and thus it would effectively stop the "campaigns", or at least the external ones. Current accounts of a member's confederates just sitting idle waiting to vote would also be ineligible to vote until they actually look at the site for long enough to get the right. I figure that the time frame would be equivalent to a member being active for at least 3-4 months, yes? /P