Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27575896-20190124185247/@comment-25615841-20190126170318

ZedKiller13 wrote:

ToTM previously had two votes, but it was reduced to one from a staff discussion since finding those votes in already junked up ToTM threads is painstaking, and ties I think happened multiple times. The other issue is that the two votes were basically a free vote for yourself. You vote yourself and vote another, which leads to ties if everyone else doesn’t focus on one specific person from what I remember. Ties happened? I don't recall there being any ties spare Spare the one in January of last year, and one vote per person was already in place then. And I get that double votes add more work for whoever's counting and is another thing we have to keep track of, but at the same time, ToTM isn't that hard to keep track of right now. There were points where there were no new votes coming in for over a week, and even now, it isn't exactly the focal point of this wiki's activity. If anything, we could make the competition more interesting.

And there's nothing stopping us from banning self-voting. It probably wouldn't make the biggest difference since you can already nominate yourself. Besides, self nominations are already less common (thankfully), and votes are even more scarce. This wouldn't be a big sacrifice in order to experience the benefits of two votes.

As for Add's argument - I've said it already, I don't think bias in ToTM has gotten to a point where restricting the votes is absoloutly necessary. But all of this problem would be decreased significantly if every user were to have two votes.

Yami is right in saying that if voting was open to everyone and edit requirements were brought back, an imrpoved schedule would have to be put into place.