"So a "chunk of the membership" is against Legume...hmmm...if that's the case then maybe the PTB's are responding to the wishes of the membership! EGADS say it ain't so!" Well, if they're responding to the wishes of a portion of the membership by discriminating against a particular member, even though that member hasn't violated the TOS, they're discriminating. When contest prizes are involved, businesses, charities, etc. have to abide by their own rules. "Actually they did tell everyone, some people just don't want to remember that fact." Some people seem to want to remember it SO MUCH that they're willing to say they saw the post, though they can't remember exactly when or where and can't track it down so the rest of us can see it, too. "Actually, Tammymc explained the poll was posted accidentally, it was her fault, she mis-communicated! OH MY GOD TAMMYMC IS HUMAN AND MAD A MISTAKE...GET THE TAR AND FEATHERS!" That's management's official explanation all right. It doesn't really explain HOW it supposedly happened, though--what does "mis-communicated" mean? I mean, did she say "anybody want a bagel?", and the programmers thought she said "put the AOY poll on the front page with the little blue logo and tell everyone to vote and leave it there for three days?" It honestly doesn't make sense to me, illusions. And I certainly don't advocate tar and feathers, or any other unpleasantness--all I'm asking is for management to fix the problem in a way that's fair to all the contestants.