beryld - no one said anything about it being fine to take over.  i believe pjz99's point was that the only thing we're doing is commenting.  since the "Today's Most Commented" images are between 80 and 48 comments, and we're only 30 people so far, even if every member commented on every image,  we'd be far from the top. 

i am deliberately not rating anything i critique.  but even if i was, i doubt that the number of ratings would help.  because the whole point is to be more critical - so no more easy 5's.  since "Today's Top Rated" images have from 50 to 22 perfect ratings, again, it's very doubtful the group would influence ratings.

and since the "art charts" have even more complex logic than these two simple ways, i don't see the point of your complaints.  i think that if anything, this will be a detriment to the uber popular love fest some have.  for one thing, others not in the group will see the more critical comments.  human nature dictates that people will be influenced by them.  so they'll see the imperfections, and be more likely to give their own critique and less likely to give a perfect rating.  unless they're just looking to make themselves popular (not much you can do in that case).  i don't think it will be nearly as easy to become the next hot new artist here with 4 or 5 critical comments in the mix.

it seems to me that you're grasping at potential negatives in something that's the most positive and community driven change i've seen in a long time.  i'm not sure why.