Hi,
The galleries page - http://www.pbase.com/galleries - is updated to show who has added a new gallery. However, the design of this page is such that a "new" gallery is ALSO shown when somebody adds one or more photos to an existing gallery. This fact is being exploited by some to generate a lot of visiting traffic to their own pages by deleting and then reposting a photo out of each of their galleries EACH DAY. By doing this, their galleries are often displayed on the galleries page, and curious people are thus clicking on the photos and hence just contributing to the poularity spiral (by subsequently voting for a gallery).
In all honesty, my own photos are not of the highest quality so it would make no difference to me if people are using loopholes to leverage their popularity all not - people won't be voting for my galleries. However I do enjoy looking at other peoples photos and I therefore feel it is quite unfair for one person to push themselves forward at the expense of another. I'd rather be looking at new & fresh work rather than seeing the galleries page clogged up with a few people with nothing better to do than churn their photos.
I know people will simply exploit alternative loopholes if one is blocked off, but I still feel it is better to have fewer loopholes, not more.
Cheers,
JB