User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Regarding PotM (again)/@comment-26030957-20151121154946

This is so sad.

I personally don't consider PotM a popularity contest, seeing as I've seen some simply incredible pastas there that I might not have ever noticed, such as Cure for Cancer (one of my absolute favorites and written by an anonymous user so how could it be a popularity contest?) and Necrosleep. Isn't the winner this month a brand new member? How would that make it a popularity contest?

My only problem with it is that NSFW aren't allowed. Boy, I'd love to see Interview with a Nullo win.

I'm very proud to have won it twice, and would like to think it was because of the quality of my work and not a popularity contest.

I've been nominated many times. The first time was The Abalone Thief which received sixteen votes (wasn't even in the running, came in fourth I think) and lost to Empy's A Small Piece of Lead.

Then there was He Was a New Man which received three votes.

The first time The Long List got nominated it got five votes, but the second time it got, like, fifty-four and won. That was a happy day and resulted in quite the hangover, lol.

Then there was Nightingale nominated by the great writer and contributer Mr. Dupin. It got twenty or so and lost to The Harbinger Experiment.

Sons of Odin got five votes.

But then The Number of Darkness got fifty votes and won by over twenty votes.

Looks Like We Got a Live One Here, Boys (I love this story and am working on a rewrite) got nominated by I had it removed to give some others a chance, namely Shadow's A Figure in the Fog which won, well deserved as well, another great story that deserved the recognition it got by being PotM.

Anyway, my point is, I don't think PotM is necessarily broken or a popularity contest, though it obviously has its problems, and I will be sad to see it go.