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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2626630" data-attributes="member: 11574">Please preface with "In my opinion" as I am not all-knowing.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I voted the way I did because, I knew I was not going to be a judge, and so in looking at the candidates I picked the 5 people who most closely match my opinions (on gaming products at least).Teflon Billy was an easy choice (for me anyway as I often ask myself WWTBD? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) and the other 4 people are all below the top half of the current votes. I think TB has a valid point, if there is such an outcry from people over who's going to get the judgeships, then you would have seen it reflected in who actually got the votes. If you think that TB doesn't deserve another run at it, then don't vote for him. But that apparently didn't happen as he leads in votes. If you think that it's a waste of time as the top five have such a lead, that voting would be pointless, you might have an argument there since the total # of votes is well below the total # of members on this site. If that is the case however then a candidate would only need 90% of their total vote within the first day to create such a gap to discourage any other voting.If the remaining members came to vote and saw the totals and were outraged by who was leading and they all voted for the those at the bottom of the list, then the list gets flipped on it's end. That's not happening however, so either people are comfortable with how this is shaping up or they aren't motivated to change it.Either way I think we'll continue to see these kinds of results year after year, until something causes enough of the remaining members to vote.</blockquote>

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