let's do some detective work
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=whoif you look at this at any point, half of it is guests
i doubt these guests are bots. they're lurkers i bet, they vote despite maybe not replying
also this thread has 33k views. assuming the distribution of views to pagecount is linear, (this isnt an insane assumption, i bet we could say its getting more views now than for most of the thread's lifespan) we can expect that 885 views were made during plastiware's round
1/7 of those is all that's needed to produce those kinds of numbers. plus reading the mild drama thats occurring would stir people to actually want to vote, if they were unsure before.
yall are underestimating the size of our community and the popularity of this thread