the scoring and voting is getting seriously out of hand with the utterly absurd number of ones being doled out by people trying to artificially rise to the top...i find it childish, ignorant and offensive...anyone else feel this way? but what can be done? the only possible solution i see is requiring registration/log-in in order to vote but that will probably reduce the popularity of the site immensely...any ideas or suggestions?

By the looks of the site right now, someone called some friends in to do some heavy duty voting. I asked many times for the chapters to be removed to no prevail. Some of my stories along with some of your stories do very well in the voting so I don't have much to say about that. The last thing I want is to feel guilty because some of my stories are liked by the readers. I have taken a lot of heat over some of my stories just because they were at the top. It is all most a relieve that they moved down in the ratings. I just keep saying to myself that this is a war, and in LOVE and WAR everything is permitted. Lets just laugh about it, and hope our leader does something about the chapters because one of my new stories was getting really close to the top, and i would not want to miss the abuse for having a story at the top.