A veteran will probably notice that in the topic post, Gary has specified that people identify which topic they have chosen when they post their link.

Why might he be doing that, you ask?

1. Maybe for no reason just to torture us.
2. Maybe because some people have been hitting multiple topics without declaring and he's torturing them.
3. Maybe he wants them declared because next week you have to do a different one and he wants to know who did what.
4. Maybe because the polls are going to be topic specific, so instead of the bottom twelve vote-getters from a poll with everyone being eliminated, the bottom three from each of four topic polls is eliminated, whether or not the lowest in the "shadow children" poll has more votes than the 4th lowest in the "does this look infected poll," and regardless of whether three people choose to write one topic and twenty-seven people choose to write another.

There could be other reasons. Hell, there probably are lots of them.

This helpful hint has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood LJIdol veteran. You can tell who we are. We're the tired, jaded looking folks being suspicious and drinking coffee over on the sofa.

::hint:: don't sniff PTW's coffee.

(what? she's been quiet. I had to poke her)