You get to say if a game is shit in phase 2 of the poll. It's not solely about number of players. You have to have a threshold lower limit for qualifying otherwise you could have a game with 5 votes topping the poll because those 5 people made the game, or 4 people made the game and one fucker liked it.
As I have said repeatedly to similar complaints, if a game has been out for 25 years, or even 10 years, or 5 years, and it can't amass a decent amount of players - on a specialist site inhabited by people who specialise in playing specialist games - then there is likely a good reason for that. If you know of a game you love, and have loved for 25 or 10 or 5 years, and you're particularly intent on getting that game into the top 100 at some future date, then you've done a pretty poor job of letting other people know about that game, or the developers have done a pretty poor job of appealing to the codex playerbase.
I dunno if you've ever noticed, but you spend 99% of your time bitching about other people's tastes, and only 1% of your time talking about these great games that you love so much. Food for thought there my good shitposter extraordinaire colleague.