We at Yooba are very honored to be a part of this poll, and have had a plan on how to win it from the start.
Apart from the obvious channels like links on our site, facebook, twitter, linkedin, customers, friends and family we also have a subsidiary that hosts a community with 150 000 members. We have sent out mails to these members encouraging them to vote for us in this poll. We started out with a batch of 50 000 emails and have continued sending batches of 10 000 up until now. Our goal was to have 8000 votes by now, unfortunately the members of the community has not been so eager to vote as we had hoped.

Here is what we did at Flashmoto.

1. Blog post + home page banner at FlashMoto.com
2. Twitter.
3. Newsletter to more than 16K of beta subscribers asking to vote (thank you all who voted, the newsletter had incredible response rate).
4. Home page banner at www.templatemonster.com (more than 100K daily visitors).
5. Templatemonster daily news report inclusion (we don't have the number of subscribers yet).
6. Newsletter to all Templatemonster affiliates (currently more than 160K affiliates).
7. Templatemonster's twitter and blog.
8. Flashmoto reviews on specialized communities.
9. And of course friends, staff and all contacts lists in all messengers.

Let's ask other nominees to join and report. We would like to hear people from Konductor here.

The more you guys defend yourself, the more you look like cheaters. lol.

Yes. Sounds like that ;-)

Restart the voting and add some standard security elements like Captcha.
If there is a obviously security hole why the people shouldn´t make use of of them.

Every game highscore has this problem and there are good mechanisms to limit cheeting.

I think restarting the voting is not a good choice. Obviously, many companies did not cheat - the Alexa data proves that fact (I am sure InsideRia can check their web analytics).
Many companies did a lot of effort to attract visitors to that voting. I doubt it will be successful second time. In addition, it is unethical to their visitors and supporters to bomb their mail boxes again asking to re-vote. I wouldn't go again and re-vote anyway, I am a supporter of one one the nomenies, but not a fanatic, I am sure there are many people with the same attitude.

Not a good solution at all. InsideRia needs to investigate the issue and judge by themselves or do some re-evaluation of the voting process based on their internal information and web metrics.

Just my 2 cents.

yes, you are right.

but insideRIA is also responsible for this situation. cheating forms (polls) is not really a new problem. and they make it to easy without any serious checks.

choose random rias from the list. i don´t know.

The cheating was disgusting. I am glad that InsideRIA took this seriously and is taking pains to ensure that it will be fixed and fair.

a first step would be to count all votes coming from the same IP as one.

I also don't think restarting the vote is a good option. Perhaps admit failure, cancel the poll, learn a lesson and move on?

I am glad to hear this is happening as the results appear immediately dubious to anyone who knows anything about these apps (sorry to say). I wish I knew a good solution to this problem though. Restarting the voting isn't fair to those who followed the rules but not restarting seems to benefit those who didn't (since figuring out how many votes for each product were legitimate is at best imprecise and the vote numbers seem in some cases completely unrealistic).

The more you guys defend yourself, the more you look like cheaters. lol.
- James @ rhode island seo