As some of my fellow forum posters have already mentioned, this practice of splitting credits for Super Votes for Viewer’s Choice is nothing new.
The benefit of the Super Vote is to provide your favorite model with more votes. Since you only get one free vote per day, this is allows models to receive multiple votes. The splitting of the credits for the cost of these extra votes is just part of the business and a way to increase the prize pool for the eventual winners.
The only time I would do a super vote is if the model was close to winning a serious prize.
While this is a common mindset, helping a model early on is another way to look at it. If you "wait and see" after the first month, your favorite will be so far behind, there will not be anything to see come November.
But of course, at the end of the day just supporting them with regular tips is good enough and probably will help them out more in the other categories for FOTY.
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