I got steam, but AOC wasnt installed via it, so it doesnt show up as active when I play it.
That said, it can be added to the steam libarary via "add non-steam games" and as such show active to my friendslist.
I have no idea if that counts towards the AOC statistics internally in steam.
That said, from now on I will activate AOC via steam.
As for Cins comment; it more sounds like he is refering to hes worried about it being "sabotage" by putting AOC in a bad light with multi-voting by same user.
I think we should stop worrying about what 1 or 2 players do (there will always be a few "bad apples" regarding what game/community) and focus on informing the reviewer about how to get the best expirience.