I really don't want to get into an immature justification match with the moderators in this forum. However, as I mentioned to choose is subjective. If you are choosing some piece of work that you feel deservers more attention than you think it received in the gallery then that would be very subjective plain and simple, some may even consider it favoritism. But you are the moderator and it is up to you to make the wise choice would be my guess. I would agree that doing away with ranking or rating an image would be a good idea. Constructive commentary for improvement or of approval of an image I find very helpful. However if you take away the ranking system then you may loose all the artists that do this for the attention and that may effect your bottom line. Perhaps as moderators a responsible approach would be to work with RR management and find a solution. Or check out other sites like RR that have solved this particular problem with ease. I think Im up to 75 cents by now . :O) Best regards.