Okay, see, I FULLY agree with that. Which is why I do not like polls, where removing a vote (unless someone accidentally checked a box, meaning to click the one above or below it) is basically the same thing. If you vote for me one day, but then your friend is one vote behind me and I watch my vote disappear? It seems fishy. I'm not really seeing it HERE, but it's happened. And while I did watch a vote disappear in a poll here, it was only once, so I'm willing to chalk that up to a one-time error, not some weird conspiracy.

At the end of the day, I'm just going to write, and hope people like or at least respect my craft. And then I hope they vote for that so I can continue to play. On top of that, I'll chat with people and make friends. But I'm leaving the whole clique and "I'm better than these people but as good as these people, let's form an alliance" bit to the wolves, because I'm not interested. I'll do what I do and hope that's enough.