There's really no guidelines perse for the Hot 20...it's basically whoever gets the most votes for the images. I've brought up the question before about Poser-only pictures being uploaded to the Bryce gallery, and as skeptical as I am sometimes of Poser, when everyone explained the reasons why, it made much more sense. Some use Bryce to render Poser figures, or may use Bryce for other stuff like a background, etc. As much as I wish the Hot 20 would fill with Bryce-created work, it doesn't have to be that way. For those of us that don't use Poser or don't have time to learn or mess around with Poser, it kinda hampers some effect of earning a Top 20 spot...but at the same time, I view it as a challenge to get back in there because that means I was able to have a popular non-Poser image for the great folks in this forum that do the voting.

In some cases too, images will pop in there that really any of us would find it hard to understand how it ranked. Fairly recently there was an image in there where the quality in my opinion was nowhere near what should have gotten it in the Hot 20. After checking the fact that it had 6 overall gallery comments and like 8 or 9 Hot 20 votes, it really made me wonder how many peons that person got to log in and vote, or how many usernames they have to cheat the system. Sure this is all skeptical, but it really upset me at the time because I felt I was cheated among with many others that had put out some damn good images at the time. I guess, though, that things like this will always happen and we (or by the way it's sounding here, just myself) must learn to deal with it.

MD