User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/News about PotM/@comment-28088262-20150520180527/@comment-25428589-20150520181954

"Rather small internet community"

We actually get (generally) more than 100,000 pageviews daily, if Wikia's statistics are accurate. While, obviously, the majority of those pageviews aren't actual contributors, it's still a pretty big number.

With regards to how we caught the guy, Emp noted that the amount of votes the pasta was accumulating in just a day (45 votes in ~24 hours) was too high to be believable. He was later able to dig up a NG thread mentioned above, in which the author requested that people come vote for his pasta.