Look, I'm basing my thinking on what management does, not what it says. What they say is: they changed AOY voting last year but forgot to tell anyone. In fact, even THEY forgot they changed it, so they put the poll up again this year (just like last year), and told us all to go vote. Then, three days later they remembered they'd changed the rules a year ago and took the poll down, oops, our bad, sorry--we'll pick the AOY for you because of past voting problems, but of course it's still ok for you to vote for AOM, that's different. What management did, out where everyone could see it, was put the poll up, leave it up for three days, encourage us to vote, then take the poll down just as Scary Freak Legume was making a run at the lead. What's been done in this case is weirdly disconnected, for me, from what's been said--and this certainly isn't the first time I've had that feeling around here. Management has a long history of shooting from the hip (directly at its feet) when issues of control arise, so it doesn't seem like a big stretch to me that they might be doing something similar here. Think what you want, dialyn, of course (you're welcome), but R'osity's track record around contests and control issues hasn't exactly been flawless. All I'm really saying in all of these threads is hey, this looks bad, please give us an explanation that's forthright and makes sense. So far, I haven't heard one. Apparently oops/sorry is their story, and they're sticking with it.