Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-30231428-20170701043516/@comment-26234016-20170723214043

71.244.139.48 wrote: Spicy, you read my warning- i was very open with my opinion.. i don't care that you don't care about who wins. i do get that what happens happens, but it's cool to see how my opinion differs from other people. i don't think you realise this. Also, by "golden 3" i didn't mean they were better than anyone else, i just mean they all got active at the samet ime and won totm 3 months in a row. (ghosty, deseet, sondz). '''And it's not a communistic place, we're not all equal. some people ARE better than others, but we should be TREATED equally, in most cases'''. (as long as you are serious about this wiki). No one is offended about the truth, spicy.

This is something I agree with more than you know. Not necessarily the 'better than others' bit, but anon (GET AN ACCOUNT), I know next-to-nothing about you, not even your gender. By contrast, I know that (because he's not here anymore), FirePyre is Australian, owns (at least) a dog, and is a huge movie buff, enjoying movies like Kubo and the Two Strings and Mad Max: Fury Road.

totm is twisted for reasons that i explained, but spicy, you can't speak for everyone. i do kind of mind it- it's spread kind of unfairly. Not that it's too big of a deal, but it's something. btw Chengsha pls do not feel offended.....

I would disagree that it's 'twisted'. I agree that it's unfair in the technical sense, not anyone can win in TOTM, but let's use the example of Spicy winning. Yes, he made a ton of friendships and that definetly contributed, and maybe YIS deserved it more, but by making more friends that means he helped the community be more positive. Spicy was the one who sparked the blog boom, which a lot of users, myself included, benefited from and grew closer – or at least as close as you can get over the computer. Even if you've got the requisite ammount of useful edits (20 I believe), you aren't garunteed to win... that's because you are meant to go beyond those 20 useful edits. You need to be helpful to not only the wiki but the community.

To YIS- I'm not saying being on discord makes you cool. I'm just saying, people make friendships there which can affect TOTM. and yes, you are correct about my definition of popular. as i said, friendships are important, same with a happy attitude, but wiki help trumps that. I would say that while wiki help is very important, and yes, it's better to have a servicable wiki than a group of good friends, we created TOTM as a way to award people for doing well. At the time, the only other option was Badges, a system much more flawed. All the people who have won TOTM deserve it by helping the community in a very large way. And one of those ways is strengthening the community.

^^^ personal opinion, don't need to agree with it. I just wanted to put it out there. I think it's good that we have these discussions, they can only cause good.