I can see a few solutions for all this. I don't think that you should say that this feature (Hot 20) is useless and that we shouldn't care about it. I think this was a great idea but, like any great idea on this web site, it's just misused. The idea to promote a small set of images seems to be pretty good as it helps anybody who needs a source of inspiration or just some examples of "how to manage a beautiful (or creative) picture". In a way, it pushes all of us a bit higher, that's good. The idea to let people decide by themselves which one should be presented also seems excellent. I love this, this is the basis of democracy. The only problem is that the main part of the members just use it as a kind of "convenience" or "politeness" or even worse, as Tedz said, as a way to say "Now you must do the same for me!" This, of course, breaks the complete mechanism which doesn't have any meaning at all today. I think we could change this very very easily: Just one vote per people per day!!! As soon as as you have done your "daily" vote, the label on the button turns to "change my vote: I prefer this image!" (if you want to change your choice) but you cannot have more than one entry per day. This would not solve the "electric lines" trouble but, at least, it would reduce the kind of behaviour we are all complaining about. You could also make a limitation on the number of pictures per author in this list. My opinion is that 1 is quite enough. (I mean one at the same time). You could also imagine a "delay": You cannot be displayed in the Hot20 if you have been there within less than x days! Another suggestion: As this web site is (partly) under the responsability of "moderators" you could give them the ability to fill a list of caracters strings saved in your DB like V, VOTE!, VVV, etc... Perform a string comparison on any comment entry and just cancel the vote if the comment contains one of this strings. That would make this voting system "anonymous", as you wanted it to be, in the beginning. Of course, they would imagine infinite new combinations every day !ETOV, VOOTE, etc... But if the moderators spend just a few seconds every time to append the list, I think we would obtain some good results very quickly. My opinion is that we should keep this feature but it really needs to be improved... This is your work, programmers! As this is also my job, I know that any suggestion I made here can be done very quickly and easily!