How does the internal process of voting for fansite contests work?

Question

How does the internal process of voting for fansite contests like fansite items work? It's voting numbers or point system? All votes have the same value?

Answer 1

Tibiafanart interview with Rejana-

(Please note I typed out her response as I couldn't copy and paste)

Q: What is the process of voting for contest entries?

A: When there is no lottery it typically works like this if there are more than 10 entries, for example, the fansite team chooses a top ten or five depending on the overall amount of contest submissions, and also the amount of time it takes to look at the contest entry. Evidently, a screenshot can be evaluated much quicker than a story of 4000 characters and we CMs do have limited time on our hands for such tasks. So - after this pre-selection we CMs receive the votes of the fansite team due to transparency reasons. We usually check more contest entries (if possible, all, already during to the contest) and are able to tell if that's really a plausible choice.

The admin then posts the top of the fansite team on the fansite board. Fansite admins then are invited to choose their tops, as well as me and my colleagues. Often, there's really us three CMs voting and maybe up to five fansite admins at the max, many times even fewer. Most admins prefer not to submit their votes, because they fear accusations of being biased.