The other fun thing to do back then was to stalk the hotties. Not REALLY stalk them, but y'know, internet pseudo stalk them. Back then, amihotornot.com didn't host the pictures. So, you could right click on the picture to find out the URL where it was hosted. And you could see what else was in that folder or find the person's home page. And if their home page had an email address published, you could write them an email. "Hi, you don't know me, but I saw your picture on amihotornot.com and you sure are a hottie. I gave you a 10!" And they would be really suprised that you were able to email them and want to know where you got your stalker skilz.
Nowdays, you can't stalk people on hotornot because they host the images. However, there's another site gothornot that doesn't host the images, so you can still stalk goths. Of course, there's lots more free photo hosting sites now, so that's where most of the goth pictures are hosted, so it takes a lot of clicking to find a stalkable goth. And most of the stalkable goths are really exhibitionists looking for fan mail, so stalking them isn't as much fun as stalking the girl next door on hotornot used to be.
Anyway, that was all good fun while it lasted, but then my interest waned for a few years. Now, it's waxing again. And good timing too, because there's lots more features than there used to be at hotornot.com. For instance, they give you these cool graphics that you can put on your web page. Are You HOT or NOT?
See, I'm much hotter than I used to be. Or maybe it's a better picture. Or maybe the audience has changed. We had a theory back in the day that it was only gay men rating the men on amihotornot.com. That's why Greg's man boob got the highest rating. Anyway, another new feature of hotornot.com is this "meet me" thing that's kind of like a personal ad, but not really, but kinda, well, ok, it's exactly like a personal ad. So, you click "yes" to wanting to meet people and if they click "yes" to wanting to meet you then you can send an email through the hotornot web site without ever revealing your actual email address. And "meet" on hotornot actually means exchange emails and instant messages and not actually meet. So, it's exactly like web based personal ads. Anyway, here's where privacy gets violated even more than the stalking thing, hotornot provides the means by which you can publish the pictures of the people who clicked "yes" to meeting you. And here's my list of hotties: If you click on the link in there, you get the whole list with bigger pictures. Fun stuff, huh?
Wait! There's more! Hotornot.com also has a new feature called scoreboards. The idea is that a bunch of people can compete to see who's the hottest. Most of the scoreboards are open, so you can just add yourself to them. For example, there's one called a. It used to have 3 people on it. When I added myself, two of them dropped out. So, whatever "a" used to be, now it's me and lady_maverickalwayz. Not being satisfied to just add myself to "a," I created a scroreboard called seattle. So far, it's just me and a couple of the fine young ladies from my "meet me" list, but since it's open, it's should soon be filled with Seattle area hotties. Either that or the whole scoreboard thing won't ever take off and it'll all just go away.
The scoreboards now have a nifty graphic proving that I'm the hottest guy in Seattle!
And, what do you know, I'm also the hottest guy on A.
But, alas, even my hotness has its limits. I'm 11th place and falling in men, and they don't give you a cool graphic for that!