LJ Idol Presents:

When you first saw this tactic crop up, did you consider possibly talking to the person in question, since, you know, you are on her friends list? Did you think maybe you could take her aside and tell her your feelings, maybe without using the words 'disgusting,' 'stoop,' 'pathetic,' and 'hollow?'

Did you give her any benefit of the doubt? Did you voice your concerns so that she could consider how other people might take that tactic (something that she was asked to do) and make an educated decision from there?

Like a friend would do? Like someone who has come to like and respect another person in this competition would do?

Or did you sit on it, stew on it, let it pile all up and then come out to roast her in public to get her ousted without ever considering that she may have had a different opinion than you at the time, but given the information at hand would have ceased the behavior, whenever it was this first started happening?

Because you are using very strong, and very angry words here.

And I'm not invalidating your feelings or your right to state them however you wish in whatever forum you wish to do so.

But I would like to state here that if she does win, her victory will not be hollow or pathetic. She's a ridiculously strong writer with more talent in her little finger than I have in my whole body. She's doing her best to play the game, going on very little.

Perhaps a veteran's support and guidance would have checked this more appropriately and quickly than a public reaming?

I'm really saddened to see someone's hard work belittled like this.

There are three voting rounds. What she did may have affected the first one. What you are doing here:

"My personal hope is that more people see this farce being created… namely, the contestant/jury voters as well as the Gatekeepers and run their ass out on a rail."

is attempting to affect all three.

Is that any better?