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)