Ya know -- this gallery ratings business has been a source of endless contention since the time when there was a gallery around to rate.  And it's not going to stop being an issue.  No matter what the internal program mechanics of the ratings system happens to be -- someone won't be happy about it, for whatever set of reasons.

I'd understand the concerns better if monetary prizes were being handed out for top-rated images.  But seeing as how that doesn't happen -- it's like fussing over the ownership of twigs in the middle of a dense & very large forest.  There's plenty of twigs to go around, so it's not a problem (assuming that there is any kind of a problem, for the sake of argument) worth spending one's time bothering about.  At least it isn't to me.

Of course, I'll know for certain that the gallery ratings system is perfectly fair and balanced when my own paltry few images are top-ranked among the thousands.  THEN I'll be greatly reassured that the "PTB" are totally and completely honest and on the square in the way that they've set up the gallery ratings system.

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