If I may chime in ... my critique is posted as #4 in this thread, my other comment is at #10, and I don't think either fall to the level of making threats against someone. But the point I'd like to make is that I've only been on Rederocity a month now, and on the forum less time than that, but I must say that I found it disheartening at best to see BU's work getting Hot20 votest and masses of raves ... and then look at my own stuff (pretty much getting ignored), and I would compare his work with my own and wonder what the deal was. I'm not great shakes as a Brycer, but seriously, even my work was (is) better than his by some lengths (objectively -- yes, I know I like my own work, but honestly, it is better than the images I saw in BU's gallery), and when I see something like that it can't help but make think that the whole Hot20 and rating system is a big popularity contest and has nothing to do with the quality of the images, or with learning to improve the quality of the images.

Could be worse, could be raining.