The thing about the Hot 20 is that it has nothing to do with talent...in fact some of these artists themselves have said that they don't understand how some of their images get into the Hot 20 because they've seen better images and think theirs are bad.Thats not to say that they think they are bad artists...thats simply to say that sometimes they upload an image even they think needs improvement. The people in the Hot 20 don't always ask for the recognition they recieve...but thats not always the case.In the contests here,rosity was forced to acknowledge that trolling was affecting the outcome and the same people always seem to win even when there were clearly better images that should have won.Rosity has made changes in this regard and can even monitor the voting on these contests as I understand it to find irregularities.So if it is acknowledged that the contests have problems...then why not examine the Hot 20?? One flaw that stands out is that when an image makes it to the Hot 20 you can still vote on it.You yourself point out how you don't have the time to wade through all the images being posted so you go to the Hot 20 in order to save time.When you get there what do you do??A lot of images could be there if there were only 3 or 4 votes,but once they make it to the Hot 20 you are then influenced to vote for these images because you don't have time to check out the entire gallery to see who the rest might be.So in responding you reveal yet another flaw in this system. The current #1 image in the Poser Top 100 Most Viewed is a case in point as the artist has several images in their gallery but only two stand out for some reason and the artist themselves say they are puzzled by the popularity as its a simple image.What may have happened is that someone posted links to the image that others checked out...from the comments it shows there are as many insults as compliments and its only ranked Great???Here I don't think the image maker themselves is even aware how its getting so many viewings which further alludes to something being wrong in how the system works. I think that what has people ticked is that there is the perception that the Hot 20 and other processes here are to "reward" the best artists for their images...instead it seems to have nothing to do with talent but other extenuating circumstances such as a personal like of the person making the image or trolling.Those who don't like whats happening aren't envious of those in the Hot 20...they feel cheated by it both for themselves and for other artists who may in fact be more deserving of the recognition. There are ways to resolve this as I stated above by eliminating it altogether as a "site" thing but move it instead to each artists homepage.If you must have it then there are a few things that can be done like (#1)Limiting the artists in the Hot 20 to only one image as at times a single artist has had up to five images there. (#2)Limiting exposure as an artist in the Hot 20 may appear in it only once each month Possible changes...but if you want the system to continue as is its always going to be biased and when people feel as if there's discrimiantion they will always lash out against it~in this case they have a foundation proving bias and thats what they want changed~they have wanted change for years now and since it hasn't happened their frustration simply grows.

If the end goal of learning is genius...why are most geniuses failures at learning?