Quite frankly I’m shocked it has taken this long for someone to come out with this – Hot or Not for websites. If Digg/Propeller/Reddit/etc is a little too heady for you and you just want to vote a site up or down based upon how it looks, Web Hot or Not is for you.

Created by Technorati founder David Sifry, the site is about as barebones as they come – there isn’t even an ‘About’ page yet. All you get is a screenshot of a site and below that a scale of 1 to 10 of how “hot” it is. If you’ve ever used the actual Hot or Not site before, it’s exactly the same. Once you vote, you are taken to a new site’s screenshot to vote on while the last one you just voted on has it’s “official rating” updated in the upper left hand corner. Best of all, you don’t have to register to vote (it’s not even an option).

The best part of this site is going to no doubt eventually be the comments. I can’t wait to hear the anonymous masses rip into the way sites look. Has anyone submitted MySpace yet?

Anyone can add any site simply by clicking the ‘Add site’ link and putting in the URL. It takes a bit of time for a screenshot to be gathered for that submitted site.

The real question, as Mashable asks, is if this is meant to be just pure entertainment, or if this will in some way relate to Technorati? To me it seems entirely too vanity-based at the moment to be of any real use, so I would guess it’s just meant to be a fun little exercise in site building. It’s mindless web entertainment, you see a site, you vote, you get the next one, you vote, rinse, repeat.

[UPDATE]: As David Sifry confirms on his blog, the site is just meant to be a fun little experiment, though he does say “who knows where it’ll go”. His description of its genesis reminds me a lot more of StumpleUpon, which is actually more apt than Digg/Propeller/Reddit/etc I think.