Understand I'm not saying a HG has NO ONE who likes them or NO ONE who dislikes them. What the "bell-curve" theory suggests is a decent amount of fans who like them, a decent amount of BB fans who hate them, and VERY few in between. This season Elissa supports this theory more so than any other hamster in the house IMO. And yes, being Rachel's sister contributes to the high numbers on both sides.

"every player has both a love and a hate thread with hundreds of entries in each..."

Are you insinuating that the "hundreds" constitutes a fairly equal number of both love and hate for EVERY player? If not, than I have NO idea why you bring it up to respond to my post because I never indicated that in my post(s) and as mentioned above that's NOT what the bell-curve theory suggests.

There's NOOOOO way you will convince me (or most any viewer) that Aaryn lovers (if they even exist) mirrors the number of Aaryn haters. I could say the same for GM. No bell-curve with these HGs.

I also feel there's several "flatliners" as of week 4. Jessie and Andy would definitely be flatliners. No bell-curve with these HGs. I'd even say before Judd won HOH, he'd be a flatliner too.

Conversely, I believe Helen is being shown as "America's Darling" thus far and no way I would believe the number of haters are remotely close to the number of lovers. No bell-curve here either.

"Elyssa is a terrible player so she wouldn't have gotten the MVP once if she wasn't Rachel's sister."

I agree; no debate here.

"However, she would get some votes for nominee even if she was unknown.

Not sure what you mean by "some votes." I suspect everyone's getting "some" votes. But make not mistake about it, the overwhelming number of votes she got to be week 4 nominee was because BB fans dislike Rachel; not because Elissa's a "terrible player." Personally I don't think being a great or terrible player factors into the criteria most fans are using to vote.

Aaryn and GM were in the top three because they are racist bigots, not because of any gameplay (or lack thereof.)