"My advice is that You refrain from leaving the vote as a Public Display....VOTE....then perhaps, that Person will not feel "Obligated" to vote back...the old..."you scratch My back...I will scratch Yours" That's never gonna happen, Pal! If you take away the vote factor here you'll probably see a grape Kool-Aid mass suicide on a scale never before witnessed by humankind. It's important to the vote farmers...they NEED to feel popular! And imagine what it would be like to no longer see " V WOW! Picture Perfect! HugZZZ! " in the Hot 20? It'd be BORING man! Plus there's the money end of it for Renderosity. It's advertising products. You disable the vote button, you disable revenue. No, things will never change. Renderosity will lie to you about it by saying they're seeking solutions, but in reality they're not. It's obvious that many members here don't even visit the galleries. Their Renderosity memberships consist of e-mail notifications, vote buttons, and the Hot 20. The rest is a complete waste of time to them. Spend twenty minutes creating sub-par pictures, post, then wait for the life-giving votes to come in. That's all there is to it! Hey look, I'm popular at number 3! w00t! I cannot for the life of me understand why management didn't take my advice and rename it to "The Renderosity Popularity Contest". So, learn to live with the 'adolescent factor' of Renderosity, or, refrain from even posting here. Luv and HugZZZ! BYEEEEEE! Flame away!