Well, the idea behind the battle is: create a really great song that will receive great objective reviews & ratings... It's not about getting your song plugged... I mean, that way, I would have dozens of "friends" create accounts and vote for me 100% and to everyone else in the battle 10%. Then it would turn into a popularity contest... That's not the way.

Rating a song is supposed to be objective. Being moderator, I do check out voting behaviour and fortunately the majority of the members who DO vote, know to do it reasonably objectively.

But I have seen malicious voting behaviour... And these (very few) people are now dealing with the consequences.... It's that simple...

Personally I would prefer every member casting votes to every song in the battle, that way all songs would get an equal amount of votes, and the averages would make the most sense.