I was just a contributor and never got the full story, but yes, evidently it was blindingly obvious (same IP address creating vote after vote or some such). One of the measures to counteract it was a rule change that in order to vote you had to have been registered at dpreview.com before the vote began. Considering the prize involved (having to be the next moderator), you wonder why somebody did it.
I must admit in looking back on it (look for the posts around April 18th, 2003 if you are really curious), I was somewhat of a jerk and I wish I had just let it slide, but the whole argument touched a nerve with others. I also had skipped over the rule about voting for yourself (not intentionally, but still...). As I understand my art history, it was sort like when the impressionests came on the scene, challenging the existing order (realists), though it is amusing that the roles were reversed in this case (it was an impressionest challenge meant to be highly edited, and I challenged it with a realistic photograph).I'll go back and look at that, when I have time (working in the UK
at the moment, blast it).
Anyway, all is quite obviously completely above board with this
one, you'll be glad to hear
