For what it’s worth, it tried to detect whether there was trolling going on.
I initially had chosen FMV and RTS. A few days ago, there was a 3-way tie at 17 votes each between RTS, Neo and FMV and it also smelled fishy to me. I switched my vote from RTS to Neo-Geo (which I didn’t want, but did for the purposes of my experiment), leading to 16-18-17 for RTS, Neo and FMV, respectively. The theory is that if there was trolling, they would line up at 17 again.
That didn’t happen, either because there is indeed no trolling, or if there was, they sensed something was up. When the votes didn’t equalize the way I suspected, I removed my Neo vote because I wanted FMV to win (sorry, RTS voters!)
Anyway, I’d like to take this opportunity to formally apologize to Ex for throwing a tantrum in last month’s voting thread. It was the wrong reaction to have and it brought everyone down in a forum that’s supposed to be having fun and celebrating classic gaming. So sorry about that man. The ELN month is going great and lots of fascinating discussion is going there. So kudos!