Forum:Featured User Changes

This is a minor change i believe calls for community attention. Here is the curent criteria needed for a FU:

''When making the poll for the next FUOTM, be sure to include only the top 5 users with the most contributions. Do not include the previous FUOTM, or any users who have not contributed at all in the previous month, or any users who have announced their inactivity.''

We should change the criteria so more users can be Featured. 1st: expand the voting to 6 users. What users to select will be explained later. 2nd: Make it so only users with user rights can be Featured. The current rule states "only the top 5 users with the most contributions" can be FU. This doesn't make scene to me. Although the number of edits you make can be impressive, that's all it is. A number. What if half of my edits are blog comments or adding image cats? Does that make me a FU? In my opinion no. Even though large contributions are good, it matters what you did with those edits. I was influenced here with the idea of edit count's don't matter, that is actually something enforced in User Rights Nominations; why don't we enforce that here?

Why users with user rights can only be featured? Well there is a large amount of them, and these users have clearly shown what we expect in a user. So 3rd:for listing the next featured user poll it should be 3 admins, 2 rollbacks, and 1 chat-mod chosen at random. The rules of no double featured (2 mouths in a row), inactive, and lack of editing should still be enforced. I want this changed so every great user here gets a chance to be in the spotlight; and it gets annoying seeing the same users in the FU poll over and over :P 01:46, April 9, 2013 (UTC)

I support this idea. I agree that often it is the same group of people every few months and there is often no one new. --The Shadow Of Darkness (talk) 02:38, April 9, 2013 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind changing up the FU process, but I would oppose a move to make it only open to people with admin rights. Especially since your method will still end up with a small group of people nominated every month, it would just be a different group of people. You'd have to speak with Kagi about any changes, since he does it himself and doesn't like it when people try to take over his responsibilities. I have recommended before that the best way to get a bigger variety would be to take people out of circulation for longer periods the more often they win. So someone who won for the first time would not be eligible the following month, someone who won for the third time would not be eligible for three months, etc. -- Supermorff (talk) 10:25, April 9, 2013 (UTC)


 * I think your confused. I said users with USER rights; not admin rights. Even so how is that a small group? There are 22 users active right now with user rights. I am certain we have enuth users here for every different mouth. No, I do not have to go through kagi. Any change here with policy has to be approved by a community; that's how democracy works. 10:38, April 9, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I would like to see some serious changes to the process. Editcount isn't everything about a user, neither is adminship, so I would like to expand the range of eligible users.


 * There's another thing I want changed. Does Kagi have to be the only one who handles the interviews? Can't more people do it? It could mean no more delays, and it sounds quite stressful for him. 11:07, April 9, 2013 (UTC)

Silver and I discussed this on chat already (although he came up with pretty much all of the ideas :/); I support. Also, per Solace. 13:22, April 9, 2013 (UTC)

Guys, the problem with what you are trying to do is that on an encyclopaedic wiki like SNN edit count is the only way to discern who should and who should not be allowed on the Featured User poll. We simply don't have any other manner of choosing Featured User candidates that wouldn't have to include voting on the candidates as well. The only reason Users with User Rights are consistently on the list is because they've earned the right to be on that last through hard work and dedication. If people also want to be on that list, the only way to get on there is to earn it. It doesn't matter if you have User Rights or not, you just need to work hard on the wiki and be active. That's all there is to it, and quite frankly it's the simplest way. Hell, on SFW they have to be chosen purely based on the opinion of the person in charge of it at that time. And something tells me you guys wouldn't like that system either.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 22:14, April 13, 2013 (UTC)