User blog comment:ThisIsLucid/Practically a banning note, but what the heck!/@comment-27838637-20170125133026/@comment-24101790-20170125202237

If you look at the previous PotM entries, you'll notice that it didn't really mean that much then either with stories narrated by MCP and other popular narrators tending to clinch the win regardless of their quality (see: The Dating Game) as for comment-style voting, it would remove anonymity and people can have multiple sock accounts with multiple IPs to get around it (See: Zog or NommehZombies).