This happens in a lot of games. But I find it most happen in the iGraal games. You guys are like "wtf are you talking about?!"
or "WTF is Favoritism?!" Well my dear Graalian Favoritism is:
fa·vor·it·ism
/ˈfāv(ə)riˌtizəm/
Noun
The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.

Now how is Favoritism in Graal? It can range from a lot of things. From Gangs choosing members and such. To people choosing admins for the server. I am sure a lot of people could beg-to-differ though. So I'll just have little statements. I don't have to much motivation to give to many examples.

The Layered Hammer. The only thing I could think of when I think of this is Favoritism. Why make a hammer that only a select players can have? I heard the reason was to "Give it to trusting player" if that's the case I know quite a few trusting players. But not one has this Hammer. So that just leads me to think, he gives it to players he really adores/his favorites. That's only an assumption, correct me if I am wrong.

When it comes to classic admins(or at least when I use to play classic HARDCORE) they can be the ones who "use" favoritism a lot.(Yes, I know there are still decent admins on this server) Especially when hiring. When I use to play you either had to be "famous" on this server or had to know a couple of admins to become an admin.

That's about it for this post. You guys can correct me if I am wrong on anything.