Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-30231428-20170701043516/@comment-26234016-20170719141322

71.244.139.48 wrote: HAWAIIANpikachu wrote: Anon, we already explained this, but let me explain this again, from the top All nominated people are people who are thought to be helpful, they must hit certain requirements to be considered helpful (mainspace edits, role reviewing, making roleplays etc.). Therefore, all nominationed people are helpful. Then the people get 2 votes to vote on who they want to win ToTM, depending on many factors. Making roleplay games and playing roleplay games is a reason to be voted due to you giving the wikia members down time to play strategically against other members during down times, which is helpful for keeping the wikia active.

'''yes it's a reason but not a good one. Mainspace and role reviews are more important. I have deep respect for shadow but people like jallybwan, eclipsabutterfly, and rubik review more roles and make more mainspace than shadow does. of course shadow does mainspace  which is really useful, and he also helps ppl in the comments but still. As for the active thing, only vets participate in these events, and they will be active anyway. Making roles is often how many users start to become vets'''

Actually, all three of the users you just mentioned roleplay, Eclipsa actually does it more than Shadow. And Shadow is, in my experience, extremely helpful when dealing with vandals. That isn't to say that Jally, Eclipsa, and Rubik are useless and don't deserve to win but Shadow has been here longer and has honestly done more than all three of them.

Now, let's take a look at the person's who is in first place, Shadow. Shadow has hosted no RP games (from memory) but is helpful in mainspace edits and with managing the ToTM boards. Sure, he plays Roleplay games, 'but practially every active member does, so roleplaying really doesn't change much for the votes. '

'shadow is really good but the 3 i mentioned above deserve it more. let's not get an argument over who deserves it more because it will make ppl feel bad and start even more fights!'

'' I do agree with the above. If I said that 71.224.139.48 was a much better user than Hawaiian, Haw would probably be hurt by that. ''

The two main things that effect it is friendships and wikia help, both two things that are needed for a good nominatined person, one without the other doesn't work well.

'''friend ships make votes too personal. Hawaiian you are helpful so if you weren't an admin i would vote for you'''

Thank you for keeping this civil.