# Am I Hot or Not **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979 "2003-02-14T02:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/61 "2003-02-17T04:07:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanOldLady \* > \*\*[mini hijack] > Which reminds me, I really hate that stupid website [hotornot.com](http://hotornot.com). That thing is low self esteem central, just swimming with folk in dire need of approval. God knows what would happen to their fragile egos if they got low scores. Everybody on that blasted thing gets a big, fat ONE from me, regardless of appearance. They really make me sick. > [/mini hijack] \*\* Damn you, **MeanOldLady**! You’re the one responsible for bringing my 7.0 score down to a 6.9. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/62 "2003-02-17T04:24:23Z")
Actually **MeanOldLady** , you aren’t bringing down anyone’s score. IIRC, the program used by the site factors in that every one of your votes is a 1, then spits it out so that the end result or your vote is no result. It was discusses recently on these boards, with an administrator on HotOrNot weighing in. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/63 "2003-02-17T04:40:58Z")
Honestly, would the fact that [this guy](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=1343&photo=LorenzoLamasarrivesa_Granitz_325498_400.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Lamas,+Lorenzo) thought you weren’t sexy really be _that_ big a blow to your ego? Plus he’s on wive number 5. That tells me all I need to know about his personality. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/64 "2003-02-17T04:44:16Z")
Oooh! And there’s [this](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=1271&photo=LorenzoLamas_DeGuire_261170_400.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Lamas,+Lorenzo) one! How could anyone take someone with a lopsided chin seriously? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/65 "2003-02-17T05:28:42Z")
I’d need to see you shake your money maker in a thong to make that determination Jarbaby. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/66 "2003-02-17T05:42:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MeanOldLady \* > \*\*[mini hijack] > Which reminds me, I really hate that stupid website [hotornot.com](http://hotornot.com). That thing is low self esteem central, just swimming with folk in dire need of approval. God knows what would happen to their fragile egos if they got low scores. Everybody on that blasted thing gets a big, fat ONE from me, regardless of appearance. They really make me sick. > [/mini hijack] \*\* Actually, if they are like any of the people I knew in college who put their picture up there it was done by groups of people after consuming large amounts of alcohol who then immediately gave each other straight ones. It’s pretty funny when you are drunk. And in college. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/67 "2003-02-17T06:51:14Z")
Hold on, **Freddy**. Does it junk my scores if I give everyone I see a 1 or it does that only if I go back and rate one person with the same score 10,000 times? If the former, _juh_? What if I just think everyone is really ugly? Some people are really picky, you know. At any rate, I know my one, pathetic, measly little vote isn’t going to drag down anyone’s score (:p@ **SC\_Wolf** ), I just do it out of spite. Whenever people show me hotornot links as if I give a lukewarm fuck about what these people look like, I just give the person a 1 automatically then thrill myself for a few minutes by rummaging through other pics and assigning _everybody_ a 1. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/68 "2003-02-17T06:53:02Z")
One more thing, I’ve never seen the ABC show, but _that_ guy is rating appearance? _That_ guy?! Ahahahahahahahhaha! (inhale) Bahahahahha! Oh shit, I damn near pissed myself laughing when I saw his pic. Bwahahahahaah! ---
**Author:** ![Cosmopolitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979/69 "2003-02-17T18:43:29Z")
Lorenzo Lamas has either too much head or too spindly a neck for his own good. Or perhaps just too much hair - I’m not sure, as I avoided that “Am I Hot?” show like the proverbial Plague. As for the attention whores…um… I mean the _contestants_ (sorry!)… ‘Ugh’ says all there is to say, methinks. I’m too numbed to on-air idiocy to muster up strong objections. Good thing, actually; I don’t think my eyes could roll far enough back into my head to indicate what I think of the ‘reality television’ genre & this show in particular. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-hot-or-not/154979.md?page=3)