Apologies, it was pointed out to me in a pm tonight that I missed this post (I hadn't spotted it at the bottom of the page).

The truth is that basically every user can vote, the things you list like account created before the comp or atleast 10 votes are good ideas but these restrictions are just not available to place on the forum poll.

However, if you check out the competition wiki, it says in the rules:

It's maybe not written very well, but the sentiment is there. Cheating will not be tolerated and if there is enough proof I will certainly pull the application out of the contest. I will continue to work with the mods and everyone else to help ensure that your applications are in as fair a competition as possible, and that those who have donated to the prize fund are not cheated out of their money. We're all about openness and fairness here on Maemo.org, so let's have ourselves a good natured and friendly contest.. and a lot of fun too


On a lighter note, have you noticed a lot of the threads for our application entries keep springing up here there and everywhere on the active topics lists? Ive been jumping in and out of them for a looksie, it's pretty interesting.. all these new bugs reported, feature requests coming in, questions.. sometimes Im not sure if the developers are happy or not with their new found attention Especially some of the lesser well known applications, it's cool to see them get their deserved share of the limelight too

One of the aims of the competition is to get the word out there to people about the great apps we have that they dont see.. and I think to an extent we're achieving that When I was writing them up I was reading the descriptions and asking myself "Where has this app been, why haven't I heard of it before??!" The standard is genuinely very high I check the voting threads out constantly and I see guys with great apps and maybe only 1 or 2 votes.. sometimes 0.. and I feel terrible for them.. life can be cruel!