While anonymous voting is enabled it'll be oh so easy for people who want to win poemranker, hence the worst best list in living memory. Really though, the worst part isn't so much the self-voting of tens, but the anonymous turding on other poems to keep them down. As far as I'm concerned, that's what happened to Instructions To A Sculptor, and while that's languishing in obscurity the best list isn't doing its job. An idea might be to put a button on the page to take the reader to the next 20 (like on the most recent page and the comments) so if places 1-20 are taken up by the same author, you can skip to 21-40 for some variety. Possibly a subtle hint at the top of the list would be appropriate, to warn the reader that the top spot is a much-contested place, and may not necessarily reflect the view of the majority of rankers.
But please, Kaolin, get rid of those blue lines.
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