"one of the AOMs of 2002 did it, by spamming his newsgroup and having those people create rosity accounts for the sole purpose of voting him AOM. then he did it for his friend. then he laughed about it, and said self-promotion was a valid tactic." I understand the feeling that such tactics aren't in the spirit of things, but there certainly isn't/wasn't any rule against what Legume did, which was essentially to ask his friends to vote for him. And if, as everyone here keeps insisting, R'osity is about business first and art second, how can you say self-promotion is wrong? Isn't that what business people do?