Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-25615841-20180501184626/@comment-25615841-20180501194916

It's not about impatience. It doesn't matter if you choose to vote on the 1st or on the 31st, but it's that some people rush to nominate pretty new users with 200 edits, which of course in its self isn't always a bad thing, but when combined with ignorance and not knowing anything about other candidates it can become a problem.

That's why this can help. If you write a short campaign, you can educate some users on what's up, and if you're planning to nominate, it'd be awesome if you actually tried to write something about the person, perhaps including some of the things Carbon mentioned. If people valued actual merit and activity over voting who theit favourite rper is (I know this is quite a harsh statement but it's been going around for a while that totm is somewhat of a popularity contest, and I do think this could help fix that problem), then a few words about the nominee would become even more worthwhile, hence repeating the cycle and in my opinion boosting totm as a whole.

I also think that decreasing votes to two has changed things a lot, since before people were willing to use at least one vote on someone they genuinely think should win the most, and one on someone who still deserves it but also should receive the vote. However, this of course isn't the main focus here, I just believe that it's a variable.