>> But I definitely prefer a single person going in depth (supposedly) than a bunch of people turning it into a popularity contest.

Well that works fine with role contests, my issue with them is mainly that it's a competition regarding something that doesn't actually affect the game (except PBF reading).

This voting thing has a lot of good incentive drivers built in. Like making people want to market their chars, so they post logs and create content. It makes people arpee and built relations to get votes.