stop and think for a moment!  if people are so intent on cheating the voting system, they will just register multiple accounts.

from what ive seen, most the people here are administrators.  if you make it so you need an account to vote, then basically it will get rid of actual player voting...

i think the whole concept needs to be changed... it seems that the idea right now is for everyone to vote as often as possible (every 12 hours) for the mud they like?  was this always the way it was intended, or is this (like oh-so-many things in MUDs) an unintended result which people just sort of take for granted?  i may be very wrong second guessing like this, but it seems that ideally, one RL person ought to get 1 vote, ever, per time that the mud list is reset.  the whole idea of spamming votes (even the legal every 12 hour spam) is crazy, it makes the voting statistically untrustworthy because it gives people who are able to coordinate their schedule to vote every 12 hours, extra weight.  perhaps a better solution would be to make it so the votes reset every 12 hours instead of every few weeks...  or perhaps there is no solution.  perhaps democracy should be thrown to the wind in favor of common sense so that a few individuals with carte blanche can see that a mud with 12 players is getting 100 votes, check it out a bit, and then ban them, official proof or not.

if it is made so that an account is required to vote, that will just drive alot of players away from voting at all, and give even more weight to the people who sit there all day spamming and who really need to go get laid