Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-27575896-20180501201028/@comment-32881402-20180505095720

RubikJohn wrote: ZedKiller13 wrote: ProfessorArceus wrote: I voted against 3. Why should users say if the person is eligible? Here you are, trying to restrict ToTM more, and one suggestion is that we get rid of... The one thing which makes sure that users are actually helping? What? Remember, I am not doing anything and was looking at a majority.

All of these can and are supposed to be discussed.

​​​​​​​We could change it as in removing the edit count required, BUT having something following where a user would "sign up" for ToTM, and other users judge how they have been recently for the month including staff, and bias to anyone would be prevented. Basically you would judge on credibility, helpfulness, and use to the wiki for that month(as in mainspace), but we might change a lot there instead. Bias would not be allowed and to "check" you could just look at past posts, edits, and other contributions. That would be interesting, but if it was to happen, imo the judging process should remain anonymous. It also wouldn't work. First we have to give our verdict on eligibility, then ALSO vote for who we think is a good candidate? The community might not be stupid, but that doesn't mean that we should decide who is and isn't eligible. You cannot rely on a community who has no proper commitment (in terms of work) to the site to do a pretty long and tiresome task. Looking through edit history can take a while, as I'm sure you know. Why should we do something which is tiresome and time-consuming when it isn't our job?