Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-30231428-20170701043516/@comment-27398195-20170719110928

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.

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. '

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.