You need to, as someone put it, "think outside the box", or to use another clique "take the road less traveled".  

It's very "clique-ish", the good deals tend to circulate in special circles.

What you have is a popularity contest or a social clique where votes take on a whole different meaning.

I feel making it blind will remove a lot of clique voting and make voting unemotional.

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