I like that idea about the opt-in for the popularity vote. A default of no voting for hot 20 is best. Then it's only those seriously interested in the popularity contest that get screwed around with having to remember to set it for voting, not the majority that don't care to participate. just wish the forums would properly default to no ebots, instead of having to constantly click it off. specially when you forget to click it off, get an ebot message, then go in and turn it off, and still get ebot messages for another week on that thread. seriously concidering making ebot@renderosity.com a spam addy with my webmail provider. then I wouldn't care if it was turned off at all, renderosity's email server get flooding with rejected spam email messages for ebot addy.