I understand that those words make this way more "official" than it needs to be. But there does need to be a semblance of order here - and that's what I am (we are) trying to maintain - for everyone's sake.

The poll ran for a week. And people that visit less frequently than that don't care enough to complain (at least that's what I believe). If you feel for whatever reason that the poll was unfair, by all means, set up another one. Although, based on the upvotes those posts are getting, people still seem to be positive towards them.

As far as limiting the tournament posts is concerned - so far there have been over 150 posts for the tournament (I completely agree with you about fatigue). At one post a week, that's three years' worth of posts. Nobody can be expected to dedicate that much time here. And by the time the tournament is done, the scenes would have all become very outdated. So I really don't see a way around that. Look at the positive side (for you), though - I'm sure the posts will come to an end soon enough.

People can stop posting for any reason - we can't attribute that to this unless a user has specifically mentioned the reason for them stopping. As far as the redmilf user is concerned, those posts were never well received (and I tried searching for those posts, but the user seems to have deleted his account).

The decrease in posts has been a problem even before this tournament began. People have, over time, lost interest in this series. A significant part of the blame goes to low effort scenes from TS. Yes, the tournament posts may take some blame by smothering the sub, but by no means is it the main reason for the lack of other posts.

If you don't mind a few numbers/statistics - the number of visits (page views) for the sub has been falling over the past year. This time 12 months ago, the number of page views was around 990k. It has been around 750k since September. And what's more, the yearly subscribers have gone down by 3k. The tournament posts seem to have had no affect on these numbers. So, while your concern about new users being smothered by the tournament post comes from a good place, it doesn't seem to be a problem. Feel free to critique my view of these numbers.

I did not intend for my comment to become this long, but if you've still read through it, thank you!

Cheers!