Sorry, no sunny comment from me - everybody has a line, and mine hasn't been crossed, it has been hyperjumped.

But first of all I'm sorry if you got the impression that I'm blaming you for this, as I'm most definitely not! I don't even think posting the results was a mistake - I was rather curious myself, and I think knowing the actual numbers is a good thing.

My problem is soley with those lowlives.who not only think that cheating is fun, but have to top it off by making others look like cheats.

To further explain why this is so much of a problem to me: customers place a lot of trust into me when hiring me for a job (I'm working with sensible human resource data), and I've always made sure I earned this trust by being upright and always keeping to the truth (sometimes even hurtfully so).

And now imagine you're one of these customers and googling the person you're going to give access to your most sensible data to and one of the first thimgs you read is them having 1/4 of the votes deducted from a contest result because they where cheat votes.

Something like this can get me into serious trouble - and thus has turned a great contest that shone because of how the contestants where helping each other and cheering each other on into a threat to my most important belonging: my credibility.

Again, this isn't your fault, and there's nothing you could really have done.
(The only solution I could think of for any future competitions would be to somehow get a voting script up that doesn't display the results - and only announcing the filtered results at the end of a competition without mentioning the number of cheat votes.)

Please rest assured that you're still our hero for getting this contest up and running, and other than the mess these lowlivews have made, it was a fabulous contest!
(There, at least a hint of sunny now that my killing mood has cooled off a bit... )