Was me having to leave to focus on RL. If it hadn't been for that, you getting blackballed would not have stopped things.

As for blackballing the competition mid-vote, Agilus didn't "find" that glitch. It's been around since the start of the thief guild system. Zulg actually attempted to fix that by coding it up so that once a vote was called, any elites involved in an active vote would be exempt from blackballing until the conclusion of the vote. The fix apparently never worked. I've had a few elite thieves in the past who were blackballed mid-vote like that, and I prayed, explaining the situation, and an Imm put me back into the guild, and when the vote finished, I was the winner, as expected.

I agree that this problem DEFINITELY needs to be looked at again, since the current situation basically defies the entire purpose of the guild vote to begin with. What's the point of having a vote if the incumbent can simply blackball any challengers immediately as soon as the vote is called? Thus far, I've been able to get around it by calling the vote, and then simply making myself scarce for a whole RL week until the vote concludes, thereby denying the incumbent any opportunity to blackball me before the conclusion of the vote. It's a stupid, OOCish way to deal with the vote, but in the face of bug-abuse that no Imm seems to want to take the time to fix, it's really the only option.