I totally agree - I haven't been here at renderosity very long, but it appears to be more of a popularity contest than a community of artists. The renderosity administrators should take note: it may be "fun" from a programming standpoint to tally votes, and rankings and page views, and to create formulas for singling out images and artists, but HELLO this has nothing to do with art! Elections and popularity contests are enormously entertaining for bystanders, but not necessarily so for the artists who are trying to express themselves with their art. Web programmers who enjoy tallying votes and keeping statistics and page hits might not understand this, but unfortunately the burden falls on them (in this circumstance) to discover structure for interaction which does not favor a mob mentality. Good luck.