Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-27575896-20180501201028/@comment-27575896-20180508013714

ProfessorArceus wrote:

That just won't work. It's your responsibility to do that as a Moderator, but not ours as a community. You act like we will all fucking interrogate nominees and know everything about them. No! We are a community which votes for someone simply because they look like they're doing work and being friendly. Hell, we don't have to even do it for that if we implement your opinion. We can just say "this guy is eligible imo". '''What if I told you that I voted for TheSheriff1 because I liked the fact that they have 2 "f"s in their username, and a "Sh" sound? There's nothing stopping me from doing that.''' So we have to make sure they're doing hard work with solid eligibility, in the form of something relatively objective. Now we know that they're helping a decent amount, they can deserve to be ToTM.

We aren't lawyers. We aren't detectives. What did you expect? 1. It's interrogating someone to look at contributions they've made? And it's nice to see people still assume every single idea I throw out is something that ruins the entire point. Thanks.

2. That isn't relevant. We don't do that, period, nor ever have.

3. That's what looking at contribs do. I wasn't intending like an actual thing where we all check a nominee. Mods can do that while the community can just voice thier opinions on how they've helped!

I only suggest ideas. Never would I just implement something that isn't discussed. Multiple times I suggest one thing and then people instantly assume I'm ruining everything. It's not fun.

Please know that voting isn't restricted. You can vote for whoever is nominated. I'm not trying to force people to act good, it's their own choice to be helpful, friendly, nice, a jerk, whatever. It's just so that people can relieve pressure off of themselves and just act they way they want to be. "Hey, you got nominated!" "Oh, really? Cool!" and that's it. They might do some mainspace or help out a bit more, and isn't that a good thing? Forcing people to work for a certain goal because they really want to win is "forcing". They restrict some normal activities they might do. It's obviously worse in the end of the month: "Hey, not eligible yet. Gonna hurry?" "OH SHOOT" and then they just spam edit mainspace to get confirmed.

I hate the idea of working for a goal to win a simple race. I hate it so much. It makes you force yourself to do something "good" when in reality you just want to get eligible since you KNOW people are going to vote for you. It sometimes take out your normal life.

And for what? Getting a tag?

​​​​​​​Just act normally! If you want to try and win, then just apply and say why you think you'd be a good nominee, then resume everything as normal. What you do afterwards and what the community thinks of you is up to you and them.

This race is not run by the Moderators in my view. It's run by the community, the moderators just currently check eligibility because that's their job.

I always love seeing the responses after someone wins. It's nice and friendly. It's kinda like when you get +1000 edits, that little landmark that you never forced yourself to get.

Wow. I got something amazing and just carried on normally.

Arc, please know I do not try to do anything that ruins the original point of things. I simply suggest ideas and try to improve some thoughts once people talk about them. If that's not how you like it and you like it how it is with no ideas at all, fine. You can voice your opinion. But you never have to do anything even if your opinion is rejected. You don't need to run or care about ToTM at all.

If I contradicted myself, oh well. I just bring out my thoughts on the go.

Thank you.