Melissa said: "code in place that just makes a record of when a contribution is made and that information stays with the user's information in the database" Yeah, it could be done though a bit more cumbersome than the "time spent online" sniffer. However, as you pointed out, a person could just upload a bogus freebie or contribution in order to activate the voting process and would require additional monitoring from admins to check the validity of each voter... which incidently should remain secret ballot. Though your idea could be done, it would require too much maintance and upkeep from an already overwork, underpaid and unappreciated staff of admins. Jack