Weighted scores seem to be a good idea to me.

I do think how early someone posts a forum is a good indicator about its chances for being nominated. In the past month, the forum that lasted the longest usually didn’t end up the final finished forum. Last week, we had a struggle between The Ouja Board, ABC Anti-Virus and Major League Beerpong for most of the week, but right at the end all of those forums had dropped off the face of the buildr.

Clearly, those forums were going to have a lot more total votes cast than the ones at the end, Klan-based voting aside. It’s a huge disincentive to post those forums early knowing that they’re going to get eroded over the course of the week, no matter how popular they were at one time.