Is this a contest or poll now?
*look at the recent post and sigh* I don't know how a VN can still be called "weak", even when the problem lies on the reader and not the VN fault. As for me, if I ABSOLUTELY cannot evaluate the VN properly due to an outside interference and influence (such as being spoiled by anime/manga), I won't even give a score to it. I don't find it fair to the scrutinized subject. It will be an unfair vote, at least for me. It's like playing 999/Dangan Ronpa while knowing all the twist and answer beforehand and disappointed because the VN failed to surprise me, so I rate it a 3. Isn't that just stupid?
Also, I'm confused as to what purpose this list served. What does being a top VN in this list meant? Does it meant the VN is great, while being at the bottom means it is bad? And how is it going to serve this purpose when people votes is subjective and can be greatly influence with something totally unrelated? Doesn't this mean this list is a purely super duper subjective ranking accumulating everyone subjective votes and cannot be taken as a reliable factor to decide whether the VN is indeed bad/good or not for recommendation?
Furthermore, the method is also unreliable. A mediocre VN (6.0 -7.0) can easily be a top VN with this method, even though the mediocre quality is very apparent. Are we going to say that the mediocre VN is what EG found to be the top VN (i.e. the best) above everything else?
A recommendation based on this ranking is next to useless. Imagine people saw a 4 vote for [insert random title] and think that it sucks without knowing that the low votes is the voters fault himself. Doesn't such vote defeats the purposed?
A recommendation should be based on describing the good and bad points of a VN objectively, what genre it is, what kind of fetish it caters too, what they should expect from the story, what do you personally think is good/bad about the title (subjective opinion), and so on. Basically, a review!
Recommending VNs by number and rank that may be based and influenced with unnecessary element like anime isn't a good thing. That's like recommending people to play COD (overused example) because it has high score in almost every gaming site. But, if you listen to them describing why they think it's the best game ever, you feel like punching them straight on the face!