Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-25646419-20170901174947/@comment-29253708-20170901185249

Yami, when Sondz and Spicy were in the running for ToTM, they had a tie. However, you came in and broke their tie in the last few hours with your vote.

So I'm thinking that staff should have the final decision in who really wins ToTM. I know it's meant to be a community thing, but in the event of a tie, there aren't too many options.

Doing a revote of that month with just those two users would take way too long, and you might just end up with another tie. It would also take away from the next month's ToTM competition.

Doing two ToTM's would be less special to those users and it gives less meaning to the name "Townie of the Month".

So in the event of a tie, I believe that the staff should have a collective vote of who they believe should be the winner of that month. How you might do this, I don't know, but here are two possibilities:

Make a thread and allow staff members to discuss and vote, just like in court where majority decision goes.

Have everyone vote privately, with a Bureaucrat (or the like) acting as a moderator for the votes. They'll count them up, and the decision will be made.

But the problem here is that we don't want to take away from the next ToTM. There are very big and obvious issues for that. However, it will be very likely that whoever lost from the previous month will win the next month.

As for this month, Rubik does have more votes according to Yami's count, meaning he is the winner this month, despite what the staff and others might say. Rules imply that whoever has the most votes from the community wins that month (or it should just be obvious).