An example of ontological knowledge base
for voting trend analysis

To simplify programming, you can even use a table to implement this light weight ontology.

poster id subject year number of votes
3 multimedia 2013 5
5 multimedia 2013 11
10 game 2013 42
11 game 2013 19

With one year of data, we may conclude the subject of game is more popular than the subject of multimedia.

With multiple years of data, we may observe and detect certain trends.