Pete, I hope I am properly expressing how much I enjoy reading your posts. I love that you say what you mean and mean what you say, while not coming across in a heavy handed way, and not bludgeoning your tastes and opinions as being "right" while those who you disagree with as being "wrong".
The constantly evolving top 10 that I periodically report on in this thread are not my top ten, but the numbers from the voters who watch the models and their scenes, and as a sports fan and a music fan, I always love when one of my teams or songs reaches the top status and I like to gloat when the Yankees are in first place or Duke is ranked #1 in the NCAA polls and likewise when Jake is #1 in the viewer rankings. To me that is a big part of being a fan, thus the chants of "We're #1"! The word fan derives from fanatic, and that is what passionate fans are in all genres.
However, I respectfully disagree with your methodology when you said, "if I don't enjoy the model or scene, I choose not to vote". My belief is and always has been that if management gives us a forum to express our thoughts, and gives us a mechanism to vote both for individual models as well as scenes, then much like our political system, it is our responsibility as "citizens" to vote. If we either do or do not like a model, that is the way we can express our thoughts and perhaps influence management of who to bring back or at least the type of guy we would like to see on
Broke Straight Boys
A model I really enjoyed was
Danny Cruz, who only did three partnered scenes at the beginning of this year. I really liked him a lot, as I found him cute, I liked his openness in being one of the only models to actually "talk" to us on the forum, and that he explained that he was a straight guy in his personal life and even detailed his two or three gay experiences prior to coming to
Broke Straight Boys And in answering our questions, he said he would be willing to try bottoming if invited back to the site. However when a few of us requested a return appearance, Sha answered that his ratings were not high enough, so that proved to me that voting is important, be it a high number that I gave him or a low number that apparently the majority of members gave him, but either way, I do believe it is important to "voice our choice" and to "get out and vote". lol
Finally Pete, I completely understand and empathize with you, when you said, "I hate my Rays are in the American East, if not they would make the playoffs more often." I admire the Rays organization for putting together a very representative team every year with one of the lowest budgets in baseball, and yes if they did not have to compete with the Yanks & Red Sox in the A.L. East they would indeed be in the playoffs more often.
Thank you Pete for being here, and using this forum in a way that I love. I am honored to share this space with you my friend! To use the term that Slimvintage coined way back in the earliest days here, you are a great "forumite".