As others have noted - vote more and bitch less. The only qualification for an image to make a place in the "Hot 20" is for it to receive more "Hot 20" votes than images that don't make a place. Please note: this really is the ONLY qualification. Any supposed merit of a work is irrelevant. The admin have previously stated (in one at least one of the eleventy-twelve-zillion "Hot 20" blubs) that it isn't feasible to limit clone account voting, since this would have the side effect of limiting legitimate activities by legitimate clone account holders. Therefore (shock, horror) the only way "unworthy" images will be kept out of the "Hot 20" is by enough people bothering to vote for images they consider "worthy". As can be seen (at time of posting) by comparing the number of whines in this thread against the number of votes received by images in the "Hot 20" (and assuming this apparent passionate interest in the "Hot 20" is genuine) - a majority of the complainers here don't actually consider most of the other images as any more worthy than BlackUnicorn's. On that basis, BlackUnicorn's placing in the "Hot 20" is fully deserved. And since BlackUnicorn is inadvertently (?) pointing out the complete and total worthlessness of the "Hot 20" concept, he/she gets my (entirely metaphorical) vote.