Agree. I posted an image that got 23 positive comments and it never saw the Hot 20. All it needed at the time was 6 votes. Out of 23 comments, it couldn't even get 6 votes? Part of me still tries to get an image in the Hot 20, but part of me is really disgusted with the entire process. The title of this thread is perfect. I cherish every vote I get and am deeply grateful for them and the comments left, but I find it hard to spend as much time here with school, posting images on three sites, and maintaining my own site. A lot of what's in the Hot 20 isn't the best pieces, just the pieces from people that comment on everything and write V for all their voting. It's been that way probably before I started posting here, and this isn't the first thread to bring it to life, so I doubt it's going to change. I wonder how many people no longer post images here because of the discouragement that all this brings?

I've moved the bulk of my time to DeviantArt. Partly because the html is more user friendly and mostly because I can get prints of my work made there, but also partly because the ranking is done by page views. I say scrap the Hot 20 and make it the 20 Most Viewed. People would get more attention for having better art if it was based on the people that actually looked at it, instead of who's the most popular.

Message edited on: 06/23/2004 14:03

Message edited on: 06/23/2004 14:04