How did you get the other 'guilds' to stop them from their voting groups? These guilds you were talking about were from Spacebattles?
I don't study Psychology for shits and giggles, When I'm at it I can make a diffrence(Besides Lobbing the Guilds I also went around to the fokes running the Contest and talked them into eliminating voting entirely while publicy putting forth an alternative method that the more people you cheat the more unlikey you are to win)
IE the olded Judge Weighing method
Take Voters=T
Take Amount of Judges=J
Number of Judges Votes=N
And a fixed "Fair" percentage of the Community(In this case I find 30% works)
So
Say 500 Voters
4 Judges
10 Votes per Judge(which is how its currently done anyway)
500x30%=150
150/4=37.5 which we round to 38
Therefor if you even want to have a chance of winning you must get 39 Votes(Judges can select anywhere between 10-40 Entries, the more they agree the harder it is to beat them on pure votes)
Thusly all I need YOU people to do was to sign up to Vote and vote because the more people you add in the Voting poll the harder it is to fix(As the minium number of votes required gets nigh impossible to get)
Say all 40 of you voted for me
It changes the T however making it 540 making it HARDER to get the nessary votes rasing to to 40.5
Rounding that makes 41 meaning if you cheated for me you acutal just BARELY make it possible for me to win it out, Thusly if anyone cheats, ANYONE AT ALL besides just that 1 Person cheats it becomes impossible to win(Get to rediculous amounts)
Hopefuly all will go well and they stick to my advice(Which they have indicated though not comfimed)
The Guilds I know will stay out of it, but I can't aurge my case to 5000 indivduals so fraud is still possible... but no longer a sure thing