The three major evolutionary changes made this year:
(a) weighted voting for the top five of one's top ten, which was probably a good idea.
(b) voting by secret ballot only; this was strictly a "spite" move on my part, so as to irk the primitives. When voting was public, they'd come over, check the latest posts, and have some idea who won, before the awards were even given.
And if they figured they weren't one of the winners--ahem, Atman and the sparkling old dude, among others--they quit coming over; they were interested
only in their individual selves, not the fates of their fellow primitives.
This way, they have to keep coming over clear to the end; the primitives have to learn to care about people other than their own selfish selves.
(c) the CCA, kindly and brilliantly suggested by Carl, but as the results will show by New Year's Eve, I'm afraid it's only a Band-Aid over a grievous wound.