Bacteria, I respect you and your accomplishments, however you tend to put on airs a lot and that can be offputting.
Regarding this whole mess, it's the
wording of your post that gets me:
Make sure my portable wins the BH compo and those prizes will be used here for compos, simple.
The way that's worded makes it sound like you're saying "Vote for me and you get rewarded", whether you meant that or not. If you had written something like this:
If I win I'll make sure the prizes get put to good use.
... there wouldn't be a problem. Instead, "vote for me" came up first, and several people followed up with what were essentially vote for you and lazer which put everyone else who entered at a disadvantage. Gotta be sneakier!
Besides, at this point it's all but confirmed that there was some plan to pad the voting. Now there's a lot of backpedalling going on, and it seems as though there are some people trying to make this disappear. Doing exactly what you criticized us of doing: sweeping problems under the rug instead of confronting them. That's what Nixon tried to do in Watergate.