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Here’s a thread in which a similar question was posted.

“You’d better watch out, because if I ever find you I might not be able to control myself from giving you a series of embarrassing but curiously refreshing hugs.”
Erm, thanks?:)

“I would call that a redeeming factor 🙂 (If he needed one.)”

I think the reason it has been brought up is that he’s asked us to vote for him because it would “bring some more sunshine to WordPress!” and I’m guessing that’s why a lot of people did.

Unfortunately, it’ll bring little exposure to WP because there WP wasn’t mentioned on the Macromedia site.

Note that I’m not saying that WP should have been mentioned or that his posting an announcement here is wrong; quite the opposite. However, the request to “vote for him as a vote for WP” was, perhaps, unnecessary.

But I still do not understand why I get that page of XML when I click RSS when the only thing I really need for my RSS-reader is the url. Or does the page have some use in itself?

The xml *is* the information. That’s what the RSS-reader is reading and what it understands. Your problem is that your browser doesn’t understand what the xml represents and just dumps it as so.

Open up the popularity-contest.php file and change
$ak_show_popularity_with_post = 1;
to $ak_show_popularity_with_post = 0;

BTW, this is documented in the readme file included with the plugin:)

BTW, if you’re worried about comment/TB spam, the best plugin is IOError’s Bad Behaviour plugin

“You can do tha only with plugins:”

If you’re comfortable with editing themes, you can do this quite easily using query_posts. You can then edit the reading options without affecting the front page.