i feel you. everytime i see authors 'threatening'/'reminding'/'insisting' for their readers to vote....(some even put "upvote before you start reading" like wtf)...i can't help but *facepalm*....upvote is something that shows how much a reader is satisfied/impressed with a work. how could writers ask readers to say they're satisfied when they haven't even read?/or if they're not that impressed?...it's just.......ridiculous.