LJ Idol Presents:

I think that encapsulates it all fantastically.

Even as a reader, one gets caught up in the Idol race, as it were. Everyone is always going to vote for a slightly different reason, and with different criteria, and this can lead to confusion, and words, and bruised feelings. It's not limited to the end game, of course, but it's at its peak right now. (And I can finally say it's way more intense as a participant.)

A lot of people voted in that last poll. It was almost the last two polls combined. And on one hand, that is a fantastic amount of people reading great writing from everyone participating! Awesome!

On the other, a subset of a lot of people are disappointed at the results, either in part or in whole (depending on how they voted).

So it's a hard thing to balance. Time and distance from The Moment will lend perspective, and everyone will calm the H down in time. And the Idol community does lean toward the forces of good rather than the forces of ill ... so we'll get there. Idol usually does.

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