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You're saying it would reduce 'strategical voting' -- in my mind that'd be a benefit, since people would have less reason to be concerned about wasting their votes on a sure-to-win-next-round fic, they could just vote more easily on their true preferences.
On my part I like Alterego9's...
Well one of us is significantly misremembering the story, because the story which *I* remember had Cauldron kidnap hundreds of people from different universes, performing experiments on them against their will, some of which experiments killed them and others mutated them in horrible ways. Then...
Okay, at this point it seems we are at the "We like Dragon, so let's pretend that Saint is The Devil Incarnate and that he has every possible flaw and no possible virtue" stage. In reality he and the Dragonslayer had 'enriched themselves' by using the Robin Hood program which stole money from...
a) In short, hindsight.
b) If we're to use hindsight, then Cauldron was destroying the world, as it caused the Endbringers to come into existence -- and these in turn destroyed some of the world's best thinkers and tinkers, like Alan Gramme and Andrew Richter. Cauldron pretty much managed to do...
If that was the extent of his sin, that he *broke the law*, then almost everyone with the possible exception of Danny should be getting sent to the Birdcage.
Alexandria, Eidolon, Doctor Mother, Contessa, Number Man -- they have kidnapped and experimented on thousands of people, because "Scion...
Good. Honestly I felt sick with the first version. Saint is still getting a raw deal out of all this (he's like a bazillion times more ethical than Cauldron, so why the hell is everyone treating him like more of a villain than the Triumvirate?), but the first version was just disgusting. Hur-hur...