We won't reach any higher simply because Blue Dragon and Vendetta both allow more than one account to vote. Simple as that. It's fate, man.
Also makes it more fair to us players, why should we have to suffer that penalty of gold when it is not us who are not voting but the site who is not counting our votes? I think many people are fed up with the site. No matter how many people vote, so many of the votes are lost and we can never be first and have the gold we deserve.
As far as I'm concearned, the real reward we should expect is more playersto join us, rather than having better gear on "empty" server.
I love how people use the excuse that they can't vote very often as a reason to get more gold per vote. Like, if you don't have much free time, why play an MMO (which is a game genre that is very time consuming)?
I thought it was 12 hours, as it says on the page where you need to enter captcha.