I agree totally with what Patt said,Arend get over it and just enjoy sharing art with your fellow artists, you can not control or tell individual people who they can or can not vote for the more this is brought up which is at least once a month or so. We have lost many good artists already guess now more may leave??...... sorry Nick I certainly do not mean any disrespect, but I do agree the V or Vote is an incouragement no one least that I know of does it to get votes for themselves its just an honest opinion of how that person feels about that piece of art work thats all. We all have our likes and dislikes.Thanks Carolyn