Hi anna,
I'll take this opportunity to explain how our voting works to ensure it's a fair process. We have 2 levels of voting, the "popular vote" and "the panel vote". we did this due to seeing how some contests can have a "winner" due to things like people getting friends to vote, alts, etc. We really want to encourage all who want to participate to know a contest wont be effected by that so this is how our voting works.
1. the community vote. (in this case the poll)
The top "winners" of the community vote will be given a number based on how many votes they got, so for example. The one with the most votes would get a "20", the next most votes would be "19", the next "18" and so forth.
2. The panel vote: The panel will vote and again the ones with the most votes will be given a ranking, "20" for most panel votes, "19" for second most, etc.
3. these scores are then put together for the final winner
I hope that makes sense! We appreciate those who enter contests AND who take the time to vote and think this method makes it very fair for all.
If you want to see how it's worked in the past, you can check out this thread...
http://kittycats.biz/forum/showthread.php?tid=2419
take care!
callie
