"But the numbers on her site's rise to the #2 spot in the Web Ring (over a matter of a few weeks) were much, much different from every other site in the Top 15."

How exactly is the webring ran from the Renderosity servers? Consider how many screw ups there have been lately. Merchant credit figures being off, accounting pages wrong. Isn't in conceivable that all the recent glitches could have affected the webring figures as well?
I don't know how the damn webring is run or why anyone would place much importance at all on it but to blame someone for fraud while saying there is reasonable doubt is pretty stupid.

...... Kendra