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So instead of listening to user feedback, you be rude to them. Lovely. I never claimed they were, so please do not put words in my mouth. What I did say was I can't imagine how this is meant to make people participate more, which is the claim you made. Along with that, people will be discouraged from attempting to host because it's now a high school-level popularity contest. This is true for both me and a lot of my friends on this website. I never hosted before because I just graduated college. I was looking forward to hosting, but now I won't bother because I'm not a well-known user and therefore can't compete with the popular kids. So yes, the change does affect me. Can we stop pretending like it has anything to do with them "running a successful team"? Votes are either going to be based on "that's my friend" or "I've seen this person before but not this other person." No one's going to be doing research on hosts, asking around, and digging into their old TR threads -- especially since they'll be auto deleted. It's a game, not a political election. Considering only "a few occasions" did a bad host exist, this is mostly irrelevant. You could easily have one without the other. They aren't mutually inclusive, so as my feedback is based around the voting system, this is also irrelevant.