Re: voting and no seeds?
There is nothing wrong with the bushtarion side of the voting system. When you click the button to vote on the bushtarion side, it checks the current recorded amount of votes for bushtarion on DOFG, checks it again every now and then for 5 mins or whatever the limit is, and awards you seeds if this count goes up. This is why often you can get seeds without voting on DOFG, just clicking the vote button.
The problems lie at DOFG. However, to be fair, it is worth noting that DOFG only allows you to vote once per 24hr period, as does bushy, but I do not know if the 2 time periods are in sync. I mean that bushtarion counter resets each day at midday, whereas I have no idea when DOFG's IP logs reset.
I quite frequently am unable to vote for bushtarion when I visit the dofg site. When this happens, I use an annoymous web proxy to visit the site and I can vote without problems and collect my seeds.