So, I asked around and thought about the matter and -for future jams- I decided to replace the current voting/recommendation system with a list of recommended entries picked by myself.
As a contest, we want to reward creativity and originality and the current system allows that in a rather transparent way,
While most participants understand it for the little bit of fun it truly is, it is true that having any ranking at all sends out an unclear message.
Therefore, for the future I will create a jury of one (myself), check out the most interesting entries (either through creativity or positive comments collected) and pick ten, which will be posted as recommended.
It will be clearly less transparent and arguably less fun, but should be a good compromise between keeping everyone positive while giving occasional visitors a curated list of entries.