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While I agree with what you have said, is it fair that the 'regulars' so called 'accepted' opinion should be word of law. Perhaps the regulars have it all wrong.
But its a tough choice. Sometimes a lot of effort and time has been put into a very good looking chop, and a much simpler, messier and less technically skilled chop beats it.
Possible solution:
Calculate the Standard Deviation of all the votes, and ignore every vote outside 2 standard deviations of the mean.
Man i'm so cool.
While that would work, it's too much effort.
So a more practical answer, a bit like these phone in votes on TV
->Judges vote and give a score. This score will count as a certain percentage of votes, maybe 50%?
->Community have individual votes. Judge's score and community votes are combined.
That way we are more likely to get a fair vote, without leaving the power all with one group of people.