I personally don't mind sympathy votes as long as the votes and the comments encourage the artist to improve their work. But as has been said before, this particular artist has had these positive comments made to them and their work is the same now as it was at the start. Also this artist is in the habit of sending threatening IM's when they are annoyed by what someone has said in their comments. Threats of hacking your computer and of violence should not and will not be tolerated here, for one thing it is against the TOS to do such things. Violet, the same thing happens in many forums and basically there really is nothing that the admin can do about it without becoming intrusive. If this were the Poser forum for example this discussion would not be so civilized about these matters. When you've been here for a while janart you'll understand what the Hot 20 is and will understand the annoyance it creates when a person has numerous clone accounts which they use to vote for themselves. Catlin