Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-31919347-20171004155435/@comment-27128035-20171011015658

When I first came up with the idea of TotM, my purpose was to include the community into voting a user they believed was well-deserving of the award. Nonetheless, the proposal is interesting, I can see some pros and cons with it.

Pros:

- Makes TotM so instead of users winning through popularity, they win through positive contributions to the wiki

- Encourages users to make positive changes to the wiki in order to win this award.

- Eliminates great sense of competition where it may damage relationships. The fact that a user may choose someone over another person could affect this as well

Cons:

- The community isn't as involved in making decisions -- everything is controlled by staff

- Extra work for the admins and mods

- Could reduce interaction with the community, and make it more of an information site

Whatever the staff decides the want to do, I will not oppose it. A thing to keep in mind though is if this proposal gets rejected, then the admins could open up the Awards System, which is part of the admin toolbar. This will focus on users making more edits rather than being the most popular.

I did a quick read of the proposal and suggestions, but I will go through a more thorough read later.

~ BobbytheBlobby - TotM's creator