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Originally Posted by hearken

agreed. people would always see a bunch of people voting for something and be like, "oh i'll just vote for that too" or someone with a lot of friends would have the most votes simply because they were popular
and while there are the few that manage to get OTM without being popular, the majority of the voting proceeds like what i said (and what crow said)
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anyway, i'll try to participate in monthly kudos and be a bit more active than i have been as of late!

this is why we changed the system. a lot of people would focus on just voting on high ranks and other people would bandwagon vote for them. requiring people to have unique votes each eliminates this as a possibility and forces people to look beyond the characters on the sidebar or their friends who were already suggested.