"The main thing on my mind would be how do I make this up to the members and the people who were in the running to win the AOY. Not to re-instate the poll because a few angry people think the whole world is out to get them." I'm getting sick of being dismissed as some sort of wild-eyed conspiracy theorist. The poll was up, Legume was making a race of it, the poll is now gone and the admins say they'll make the decision. What am I supposed to think? It was a mistake? The mistake was in taking the poll down and not letting things run their course. The only way to fix it is for the admins to apologize to everyone, put the poll back up, and take their lumps if it doesn't turn out the way they want it to.