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   Toby Morrison said:

   In order to be hot a photo must be in a theme, as hotness shows the most popular photos within a given theme. It is not selected by staff members, but is automatically awarded based on community reaction to a photo.
   
   Hotness is determined by factors like number of votes, comments, views, and favorites. The "hotness" of a photo is automatically updated by our server every day for open themes. A photo's hotness is not permanent, but can change based on how the community is responding to other photos in the theme. If a photo is not hot now, it could be hot later based on the community reaction.

   1 year, 6 months ago

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   Shirley Valencia said:

   To earn a hot photo, it must be entered into a theme. it becomes hot only by a certain % of fav's , comments and props it receives from the JPG members views. Hot is not permanent. It can loose hotness from how the JPG members respond to other theme entries..

   1 year, 6 months ago

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   Nicolette de Joncaire said:

   The answers are correct in principle. But I have often noticed photos (obviously in themes) with a Hot status and very few Favorites or Props whereas other photos with a much greater number of Favorites and Props were not Hot. I reported the cases to JPG and it was corrected. It led me to think that the selection process was not entirely automatic.

   1 year, 4 months ago