So here's the deal. I have, for a while, been a member of a writing site called Figment.com
When Figment started, it was actually pretty cool. You could get feedback on your stories in good time, actual feed back. There was an occasional contest, and if it wasn't anonymous, promotion was banned.
Even then people worked out ways around the system.
Well I got peeved about how despite the holes in the system, the Figment admins and mods weren't doing anything to change the system that people were abusing. It wasn't about whose writing was the best-it was about watching people who had more time to promote 'swapping' for 'hearts' on their entry