When I look at my user page why are there sometimes numbers (10s, most of the time) next to some of my poems? Is this the score nentwined gives them? I know that doesn't make sense but it's the only explanation I can think of.

You know, I don't have a clue. That's supposed to show what _you_ voted on _someone else's_ poem.

So those leaking through would imply that you managed to vote on your own poem while logged in.

Or there's a ghost in the machine, which I'm willing to believe.

Are you sure you're not signed in with a different user name than the user page you're looking at? If you were Horus looking at Jeremi's page, you'd see the 10s you voted yourself.