The voting system sucks and will continue to suck more and more, in a downward spiral of suck, because there is no reason or incentive to use your votes well.

It might be better to ditch it as a failed experiment, and move over to an entirely different approach. How about instead something team based? A team of players design a forum and all its elements, the forum can be tested ‘live’ and then everyone votes on completed results to see which one gets our blessing that week. If you have stuff you want to contribute to someone elses forum idea, ask to join their team.

Also it might give klans another focus than talking **** in the forums and domination.