Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-27575896-20180501201028/@comment-25615841-20180508181319

ZedKiller13 wrote: 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? 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! Just wanted to say that I don't think this has to be exclusive to moderators. Before I cast my vote, I usually spend 5 minutes quickly checking someone's contribs and stalking to see what they're doing. I agree with everything else you said 100%, though.