There is absolutely no hassle with the populr galleries lists! Only in your mind Phyllis.
How about if we keep the voting system but instead of using votes to make a pop list, we can each SEE how many votes each of our galleries and images got, and ONLY we can see it
THIS MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE PERIOD.
And we don't need to know any numbers anyway and it would ony encourage cheating I think. This instead of the lists, eeeecccckkkkk
Allow me explain something to you:
The point of the popular galleries is for other people to easily view some relatively high quality galleries without having to go through photos and people randomly.
So an individual member knowing the vote count of there own images does absolutely nothing to better this system. Even if you did keep the system. If enough people like your galleries you will move up the lists.
If you want an idea of when a vote comes in just watch it's position/movement in relationship to the other galleries positioned around it.
Please make up your mind, first you don't care, then you do care, then you don't care, blah, blah, blah...
Just upload some pics and the votes will come. A member knowing there own totals would encourage them to conspire with other members to whore the votes. This would not be a good idea I don't think. It serves no real purpose.
The system is what it is and it works fine for now. The more votes that come in the better the system gets.
Later
The meaningful and helpful part of the system is not knowing a number. It is being able to see how your galleries stand in relationship to your peers galleries. Or just seeing how good the people think a gallery is. To do this a single number means nothing and the numberless lists mean everything.
Do away with the lists for a private number, I have heard it all now!