When you start geeking out about voting, I start listening! I once tried to implement your auction based decision-making process, but did not find my participant willing enough.
I did think about unlimited votes, but remembered the Uservoice system, where only a limited number of votes were available. I’m sold though! I could vote for everything but the things I’d really want to implement 
Can you remove the max parameter please, if that wouldn’t bork the poll?