Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-27575896-20171101150106/@comment-26234016-20171107221325

ProfessorArceus wrote: SpicyJusticeLass wrote:

ProfessorArceus wrote: You can be an efficient ass and get promotions. If something needs fixing and you fix it, but you insult the other guy who can't do anything properly, I see no reason why you can't be ToTM. After all, it's a community vote and being an ass might not affect some people's opinions about you. ...please. That's not the point I'm trying to get at. I don't care if you're nice or not, it's just what you bring to this community. You should still treat people nicely and with compassion. People will view your contributions as less helpful if they're dealing with someone they find repulsive and annoying.

My two cents, anyways. And what you bring to community shouldn't just be 'being nice'. Sure, you can be kind to everyone else, but that doesn't make you a good candidate for ToTM. 30 edits might seem like a lot, but I have 13 edits until I'm eligible and I can easily farm those by answering simple questions. Then, I'm equal to the guy who had 100 quality edits that is also an asshole. If it were up to me, I'd easily pick the asshole who's actually helping. I think that's a flaw in the system, though. Imo it shouldn't be up to randoms like us and it should be the person with the most quality edits. We can raise the standard and the system will work. Maybe it's just me who doesn't think that being nice should count. /shrug But if you act like an asshole, then it puts a bad face on the community – you of all people should understand that, if you remember way back when you were on the forums and gave glimpses of what you saw of the community... you described us as toxic, or something along those lines, because of people acting like assholes.

I think it's more important to not be seen as toxic than to be doing something that could be considered quality.