Personally, I never realized that RO had some kind of webring popularity ranking - I figured it was a general shuffle of all sites in the ring - rather like the banners - that would make sense to me so that all ring members get somewhat even exposure.

99.99999% of the time I don't even use the ring to find sites - there are enough links within the forums to other sites that I don't need to peruse the ring.

I do know that w/some of the recent MP changes that RV had gained merchants that left RO - would make sense that there would be non-merchants that followed that same path or expanded their Poser site(s) favorites. I can't even remember how many freakin Poser communities I'm a member of - more than 6 for sure.

I dunno. I have no need or desire to know all the details myself, just the hope that Lady Cherry is given her fair shake and they will be given to her personally. She has offered up her site stats for comparison to RO's stats - all we can hope for is that RO might realize that a more in-depth investigation is a worthy pursuit in terms of their PR and partnership of 'other sites that share our interest in computer generated art.'