Just to be historically accurate. The AOM voting process was changed after Legume and Mr Codini won in a row. Mr Codini was the last member that was actually nominated by the membership. It was believed that 2 sub-genius's winning, in a row, was setting a trend that Renderosity admins would rather have avoided. This was never confirmed, of course, but it did quack like a duck ! I also must say that there was NEVER an announcement that the AOY voting rules were changing, at least in my memory. Sorry to say, Illusions, but you seem to be the only one to remember any such announcement. If there would have been such an announcement then you would have seen huge threads, such as these, "discussing" that announcement. The Membership would have been in an uproar.