Really insightful article about vocal and agree with many of your points.

Have always lingered around vocal as a member, it's a great way to be encouraged to write something from scratch and have that deadline as a motivator. Though I definiely wanted to point out that there's definitely some sort of favouritism or rigging but through what I would consider cherry-picked reading. I've noticed that many of my entries were never even read during the judging process so that kind of says a lot about how many entries are left unread. I wonder if there's a tally they follow of the top read articles and they just go from there and ignore the rest.