Every voting system incorporates certain preferences. They are built in, and cannot be removed from the system. In this case, the voting system used essential

Every voting system incorporates certain preferences. They are built in, and cannot be removed from the system. In this case, the voting system used essentially incorporates the idea that relative ranking is important - something that the voter ranked #2 is more preferable to the voter than something the voter ranked #10. So the idea that the algorithm ended up picking something ranked #2 by everybody over something ranked #1 by some people and #10 by some people is not actually crazy. If you choose a system with ten gradations of voting, that's what you get - choices that are #2 for everyone are preferred over choices that are #10 for some people. If you don't like that result, don't choose that voting system. That's what a ten-point voting system is. By the way, the images are wrong - the text implies that Matt ranked Newbie Hbase very low, but the image shows the opposite.