I find the "Hot 20" pretty useless and quite pointless. I think I've only bothered to look at it a few times, and only when someone deliberately directed my attention there (not by asking for votes, either ;-). Of course it's a popularity contest. It's about whose little clique can be rallied the most effectively to vote, for the most part (there are exceptions, of course; I've seen images that I know for certain DID get into the Hot 20 honestly and on their merit rather than by voting clique). bonni

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