Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27575896-20190124185247/@comment-25615841-20190125183222

RASENGAN6 wrote: Agreed, then. The edit requirement is good. But would only mainspace count, or can you get good edits for reviewing roles, etc.? To anyone who wasn't around back when edit requirements were a thing: The requirements for nominies do not exclusively contain mainspace edits. "Useful edits" were, and probably will be used if this was passed, meaning that edits that count for the requirement would include, but not be limited to mainspace. Some of the other qualifying edit types were useful* role reviews, participating in debates, and answering actual questions.

As for the poll, I agree with Users + Staff nominations, Edit Requirements, and a revamp to the scheduling of ToTM to make it more organised and easier to count.

For the votes, I don't think the competition has gone so far downhill that we're at risk of the whole thing being derailed by people spending their votes on those who they don't truly believe should win. But hey, if you guys see this as a big problem, locking the votes could be necessary, though I wouldn't want to decrease the community's role in ToTM.

Lastly, I've brought this up so many times, but I guess it's worth a shot. If we were to include votes for non-staff users; I think people sometimes feel guilty for not voting for a friend, or someone who's been trying to win for a long time, as they cast their vote on someone they see more fit for the award. A really simple solution I see for this is granting every elibile user two votes. Since we don't all have the same close friends, peoeple who we still appreciate will gain their votes, but those who appeal to everyone with their contributions will still receive the most votes. Note that this isn't anything complicated, either, it's literally just adding a second vote.

TLDR of opinion:

user/staff nominations, edit requirement, scheduling revamp

voting restricted to staff optional (if not, double votes pls)

so basically option 1 but indifferent to user/staff votes