Tuttle,
Without naming names, what exactly is stopping these "more deserving" people from getting views? Or are they just "more deserving" IYHO...?

Touche! "truly deserving" was the wrong phrase to use and I apologize for that. What I meant was that artists who do fantastic work, that would hang in any gallery, are many times ignored completely because they lack 2 things, a sexy thumbnail or people who know their names because they don't have time or are too new to have a following. Neither of these things has to do with the gallery limit. They don't get views because of these two things. Fortunately, at some point, they pick a thumbnail or manage to get one picture that does well that throws them into the fray and from there on, they generally do fairly well. The point I'm trying to make is that you don't see those people in here complaining that they are only getting 70 views for an image, while I see people with 100's of views complaining about the number of views they get.

ShadowWind - I genuinely don't get your point! Renderosity is all about people viewing images! It's just crazy to say that because a person isn't paranoid about their images then it doesn't matter if they get 5 or 500
views!

I get completely that people want to be seen. We all want to be seen. I never said that it didn't matter that an artist get 5 or 500 views. I'd like to see everyone get lots of views. What I find confusing is why argue that you need more views, if you don't get validation from it? What number is enough to say that an image was successful? If what dragontales says is true, then it should not matter the number and thus what is the point of pushing for more views? If people want views, they should just want views. There is nothing wrong with that, but they should also consider the feelings of others on this matter and try to come up with a solution that the community can live with, rather than making arbitrary limits based on views that they say doesn't matter to them, but does apparently.