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I was trying to figure out how to respond to your question about how my claim led to attempts to data-mine the voting for information that really isn't there, and the exchange between you (the_logos) and Loremaster helped a lot:
Someone who wanders up to the site expects to see the 'Best' muds (ignoring for a second that this is a meaningless phrase).
When people see how the system works, they generally seem to have one of two reactions:
1) Oh, ok, the voting is a marketing scheme for the topmudsites.com website. Ho, hum.
2) Hey, the muds near the top aren't there because of any measure of quality, it's just votes by their players! We've got to fix this to make sure the results really show the Best muds on top!
People with reaction number 2 will then, with their desire for the rankings to better reflect what they WANT the rankings to reflect as motivation, do all sorts of strange things.
Try to extract weakly correlated data from the results because it's what they think the voting SHOULD measure, complain about the ways votes can be gained, etc.
Hope I'm clearer now?
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Stilton
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