If you go look at the top 7 or 8 blogs, the ones that have more than 1 or 2% of the votes, you’ll see solid, consistent, well-written content. Some of them are highlighting the posts that show of the skills of the nominee, some are posting fun things to encourage their readers to vote, some are simply continuing to write the high quality posts that got them a large and loyal readership to begin with.
The go down and look at some (not all) of the low scoring blogs. All you see are posts bad mouthing the competition and complaining about how unjust it is that a competition for a blogging scholarship is being measured in the currency of blogging–the ability to network and promote you blog. These people could have benefited from playing some sports, maybe then they wouldn’t be such sore losers that feel entitled even though they clearly aren’t producing anything near as high quality as the top blogs.
Here’s a pro-tip for those demanding everyone who benefited from ballot stuffing: if you had 600 votes in one day under the old system and only 150 in the last three days under the new system, you were getting fraudulent votes too.
