Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266529-20140805010219/@comment-24145588-20140805154804

Trevor MSM wrote: Every four days or so I view the top 250 islands and am grealty disappointed to see that most of them suck or at least do not deserve the rank. I am asking how this happens How it happens, I believe, is that for some devices (Android and iOS), the counting of "likes" is done incorrectly. You can go to an island and vote for it as often as you like, effectively stuffing the ballot box. People who cultivate a large "friends" list (and I've seen people talk about having dozens of pages of "friends") can get votes daily from all of those players, whether they're deserved or not -- and yes, "deserving" is completely subjective. So, you could have a Plant Island with nothing but a level 1 Potbelly on it, but have a large group of people voting for you every day, and have one of the "top" islands.

It's kind of like running for student office in high school; it doesn't matter whether you'd be any good at it, it just matters if you have enough friends to vote for you.

So if you want to be in the top islands, work more on your friends list, and get people who will "like and light daily."