Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27575896-20170927192006/@comment-30604075-20170928131243

Nice ideas you got there... however I'd change a few things.

1) You get one vote only. Seems good to me.

2) You can nominate one person, but it does NOT count as a vote. Like Yami said, that doesn't make any sense since you'd vote for them anyways. But here's the thing I'd add. You can nominate people that are not yet eligible, but you can only vote for them WHEN they're confirmed eligible. That would prevent this thing to happen: Imagine you'd have no helpful edit in this month, but you can still be a competitor in ToTM the next month and can win even if you're not eligible yet. The only thing you need to do is to get 30 edits in 60 or 61 days! Take this into some maths, each mainspace edit only takes up like 5 minutes of your free time, so no one would really bother making them a lot, since you only need to do one every 2 days.

3) You must require either 30 mainspace edits, 30 helpful role idea reviews, 30 good responses to questions on the Ask Questions board, or a mix of the three. mmhm. I think you also need to keep track of how many helpful edits you have lol, since it takes long time to check for eligibility of every single competitor. (I'd also up that to 40 =D)

4) You must have at least have made an edit or post for the last two months.

Two weeks please.

5) You must not have a history of previous bans or vandal edits on the wiki. Here's an idea: If you get banned/blocked for 1-3 days during the month, you are disqualified if you are in, and cannot join for this month if you are not. If you get banned/blocked for 4-29 days during the month, you are  disqualified if you are in and cannot  join ToTM for 3/4 months. If you are banned 30 days - 6 months in the month, you cannot join ToTM for 6 months - a year. If you are banned >6 months, you're banned from ToTM as well (who would ban over 6 months lol)

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Here's something I'd check if you'd like to be a mainspace guy, I'd add a point system to check eligibility lol (because y'all said it's legal to be mad about it when they use it as an excuse for ToTM):

Here's a crazy idea: If you create a new page for a legit reason (like a new update or smth) and wrote something like an essay lol and that should worth like 5-15 good edits depending on the length, the helpfulness and how accurate that describes the new thing. (It's English class all over again)

Paragraph added/changed completely: 100 points

Anti-vandalism: 100 points

Proofreading: + 50 points to orginal score

Paragraph removed for a good reason: 50 points

Normal links: 3 points  Text

Colored links: 5 points

Difference in bytes compared to last version: 1 point/byte (as an added bonus)

Writing mistake fixed: 10 points

Each changed word (when you're fixing a sentence or making one): 3 points

Vandalism: -999999 points

If there's anything I should add/rebalance tell me what it is and how much should it worth.

6) Each mainspace edit must reach 100 points to be eligible.