You mean this thread we are in or some other thread? Because in case of this thread you can easily see that in 4 days Timboli's entry collected 6 votes total and Swedrami's entry went up from 319 to 321 votes. That's 8 votes total thanks to dedicated thread.

Yes, I mean this thread. Is there any other?

So how it plays with your theory about votes coming from dedicated threads?

How do you come to mention these other two games?

Btw: number of (+) on the wishlist are not necessarily correlated to the comments made under that wish (attachment):

That's just first two games I saw on the list with similar number of votes, that are about infinitely more well known. For scale. In general number of votes is pretty consistent with games "popularity" and super niche ones rarely have more than 50 votes, let alone few hundreds.

Number of comments doesn't mean anything but you would be hard pressed to find entry with couple hundreds votes and no comments.

My point being the Pinkeye's vote count seems to be artificially inflated by dummy accounts although I have no idea why would someone bother.

Exactly. Why would anyone bother?
It's not as if the community wishlist decides anything when it comes to games that get released.
I really wouldn't break my head over this.
Even if some dev/publisher would jump through all the hoops to make their game "often wished"...wishes don't automate releases, and releases don't automate sales - as we could see over and over in the past, when really "wished for" games got released here, yet did not meet their devs/publishers expectations, when it came to sales numbers.

You mean like Devotion? It had way more than that in less than a day.

There are three possible answers, main ones anyway.

(1) Being interested in a game, is not the same as buying it and then doing a review. The way I see it, interest will always far outstrip purchases and reviews. I am interested in many games, but rarely review or comment or view clips, especially if I have already seen the clip elsewhere.

(2) Maybe the publisher or developer did the BOT thing to encourage its take up.

(3) Something else. LOL