I'm not against people having several images in Hot 20. If the images deserve it. "Members are strongly discouraged from soliciting votes as this practice alienates other members." Lillian, you cannot prevent it except by appointing yourselves as the judges. And that invalidates the whole point of Hot20, ain't it? Besides, it's not done in the way that somebody publicly says "You vote for me, I'll vote for you". It is cliqueish - friends voting for each other, people returning the favour of somebody voting for them, people voting for other people whom they think are nice persons... That's people being people. The only way that I can think of is what we did in Bryce Forum: actively going through galleries and voting for images that looked good to them. (And I've never had any image in Hot20, AFAIK. Go on, people, cry "sour grapes." I know that my pics are better than half the stuff that appeared there.)

-- erlik