Quote from: 5tift on Today at 07:51:06 AM

I have a better suggestion, you can rate 114 with 0 points as I am no longer interested in the contest.

Don't be like that, dude. It's all good...

Probably you only meant to say "Thanks" to the people that voted for you, but, try to see things from a zoomed-out point of view. Imagine if every participant (in this competition and others) got into the habit of sending merit as a "Thanks" to the people that voted for them. I mean, that would get out of hand pretty quickly, no? People that really struggle to rank-up by making high-quality contributions would make sure to vote in every competition that they could find...

Also, it's kind of unsportsmanlike, isn't it? I would never want to win anything by encouraging people to vote for me. I'd want to win "clean" (even if all my competitors were trying everything that they could think of to tip the scales in their favor).

(Having said all that, one thing where I myself am pretty unsportsmanlike, at least according to others, is with deathmatch first-person shooters: I basically stopped playing them because everyone else thinks it's bullshit that I sometimes "camp" and feel comfortable staying out of view for long periods of time. Most people can't have fun like that, and resent the fact that I can outwait them, and I've myself gotten into heated arguments about how it's not against the rules, but, yeah... I don't like irritating people, even when I think that I'm in the right, so I changed my playstyle, and still lit them up nine ways to Sunday, haha, but, I really, really don't enjoy being in overly-prescriptive environments, so, I just stopped playing, except occasionally with close friends.)