Kind of like Russian elections.
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."
--Stalin
I've been calling this current situation for a long time, since my (closed, then pruned) thread about TOL's Alexa ranking, visitor numbers, and modding irregularities a few years ago, my disagreement with last (?) year's awards methodology (which brought down the ire of a good friend of yours on my head), and my frequent private laments to friends that Knight doesn't seem to care what's going on here anymore. Whether life is too busy for him or if he's just bored after 20 years, either way it's been a ship without a captain for quite a while (and I have significant and irreconcilable issues with the captain when he is here, so I guess I have no hope either way :chuckle
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