Quote Originally Posted by ElHeggunte View Post
Those both sound like personal problems to me. It's not SE's fault if someone wants to avoid the forums and can't be bothered to visit for the few minutes it takes to vote. Getting banned kind of falls into the realm of personal responsibility too unless you want to fault SE for enforcing their own rules.

There are a lot of things they could have done better with this contest, but having the voting on the forums is fine.
An old FC mate i had a while back (quit now) got perma banned for telling someone it hurt to be around them, yes, saying that to someone got him banned. So i guess that is "enforcing the rules" and things like in turn keep people away from these forums. As i said, they need another source, if they want to get full actual legit votes.

Not to mention that you do need an active account to vote, it's fine to be able to vote if you say, take a break from the game. but plan on coming back but decide to vote.