The Hot20 doesn't exist anymore as far as I'm concerned. geeze, and i keep voting for the images that I think are really worthy. and, they almost never make it. you could be right. i didn't know that the 20 "group" was actually spamming for votes. i do know that the one i consider below mediocre by a long shot is going beyond spamming, to dragging out anonymous votes in the wee hours of dawn... but, but, could i be wrong? perhaps tons of folks surf the web, looking for below mediocre images in our gallery, to vote for, in the wee hours between midnite and dawn...(est time, that is.)