Thats the point...never comment on a topic you don't feel is worth discussing or is trivial as all you'll accomplish is flaming things up~it means nothing to you so what do you hope to accomplish.I also notice you're a newbie meaning you probably don't understand what the real issue is and haven't tried to educate yourself about it...thus you're shooting from the hip making a hasty judgement on face value that its all about envy and jealousy from those who aren't in the Hot 20.That only adds to the problem as everyone knows if you really want in the Hot 20 just ask your friends to vote for your images and you're in...so yeah,you are wasting your breath cause you don't know what you're talking about. Reason why its important??Next time you call tech support and get shifted around from department to department or don't get the answer to a simple question you need answered...remember,the people you are talking to know there are problems but no one listens when they complain or there is someone who listens and chooses to ignore it until the next time it flares up. People who look to find artists for commissions and such may do just like you by just checking key areas like the Hot 20 which at any one time may only have 5 or 6 artists in it.If the system is biased then you are offering opportunitys to only a select core group of people with an unfair advantage.So to some artists it may not be "trivial" at all as you state,it could represent opportunitys to put food on the table or to establish a career from something they enjoy doing. Your opinion is to leave as is because you don't really understand what the issue is about and you don't reply when common sense answers are proposed~save to say your wasting your breath and putting forth the same uneducated points of view.This is another reason the issue flared up as most people know there is a problem with the system but were broken down into two camps...those who more or less said do nothing and those who said lets fix this and make it better.They might have argued about what the problem is or what might be the best way to fix it...but they did acknowledge there was a problem and that "as is" there will continue to be a problem. Envious??I have a few hundred friends here and my own website...if I wanted in the Hot 20 all I'd have to do is mention it to my friends and a few would vote to get me in there and would keep voting to keep me in there because they like what I do.Most don't vote because they think their vote doesn't matter,all I'd have to do is tell them it matters to me and after a while of being in there I'd have others voting for me I probably don't even know so that even my worst images could make it into the Hot 20.I am speaking from an educated point of view...I know why the systems broken,I know how I could take advantage of it and most of all I know the reason why people want it fixed is cause they simply want it to be more fair.My proposals address key problems with the Hot 20 but I never said it would be perfect...there will always be problems with a public online voting system. Make it so you can vote for an image only once (I know you can only vote once a day but do believe you can cast that vote for the same image each day right) and each artist can only have one image in the Hot 20.Simple changes that could go a long way towards resolving a problem rosity has had since this began...makes it a little harder to cheat and makes it easier to find people who cheat cause they have to try harder while artists who deserve to be there still have at least one image in the Hot 20~no ones hurt and the system is at least given a chance to be more fair to everyone.

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