The thread is still there... it's just been made invisible

. Jen'll post with the October MOM soon I think

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The voting threads are always deleted after the announcement, there's not much point in keeping them any longer when the voting period is over. Also I think Jen's strategy in making the voting threads invisible for a few days before the announcement is so that no one knows who the MOM is for that month until the announcement. Jen likes to build suspense (as readers of her stories know very well

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