Forum:Featured User candidates


 * This discussion was moved from Talk:Sonic News Network on 29/10/11.

Let's see some new canidates for featured users!! It's boring seeing only admins and most of the same people ALL THE TIME. 00:41, October 26, 2011 (UTC)

I don't like the new buttons. 11:10, October 27, 2011 (UTC)

The system so far is that users with the highest edit count get put on the poll, admin or not. It's not a perfect system, so feel free to suggest a better one. -- Supermorff 19:40, October 27, 2011 (UTC)

Well, A lot of people are looking to get on the poll, a lot of users do, but, since we do not have a way to see who has made the most edits, or who is the most active, to keep it fair, this was decided awhile ago that the users with the most edits will be featured. -- 19:44, October 27, 2011 (UTC)

Or we could choose 7 of the top 20-25 users each month, based on how active they are, but Kagi is in charge, and it cannot be just his personal opinion on who is most active - if we did something like that, the community would have to decide each month, which is still a bit unfair, as they may just vote for their friends. I'm fine with the process either way. -- 20:02, October 27, 2011 (UTC)

Pretty good idea. We should put it in place next year though, to get a fresh start and all, but I think that the community shouldnt vote on 20 candidates that would be chaos, maybe we could have an admin see who are the 7 most active editors in the community our of the 20 nominations based on how many edits they made that month? I have am easy way of counting it. We could do that instead of just letting chaos unleashed and having only so many candidates to vote for that there might be ties, we could have the users nominate themselves as long as they are in the top 20, and someone chooses the top 7 editors of that month.

This is what I'm thinking:

We make a page for FU Nominations, with a requirement that you must be within the top 20 editcount users, and an admin will review your request, by looking at your contributions - the 7 users with the most edits within that month will be on the poll, you can run twice a year (With FUs being at least 4 months apart). Opinions? -- 20:30, October 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * That sounds really complicated. Something I suggested some time ago (must be over a year ago, now, jeez) was that we use the current system but we swap out the winners for longer (especially when they win more than once). The poll becomes the top 5-or-so editors that haven't won recently, and there are always 5 in the poll. -- Supermorff 16:38, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea, more too often we just seem to go back and forth on FU.  Myself  123  16:41, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Alright, we can expand to top 10 users, and choose 5, with the previous 3 who won left out. Let's do this near the end of year, so we can finish out the year. -- 23:21, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

I'll have to tell Kagi at the end of the year, if he hasn't seen this. -- 23:26, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Guys, the Featured User poll is based on the top 5 users who have the highest edits and contributed the most to the wiki out of all of us. If you wanna be Featured User, try actually contributing to the wiki enough to get the top 5. Also, there is a system based on activity: whoever has not edited for a month (30 days) prior to the creation of the poll is removed from the listing, regardless of contributions. People shouldn't be "candidates", because then every single person will be asking, regardless of whether or not they've earned it. People should earn the right to be on that poll by contributing to the site and getting their contrib numbers up: it's as simple as that. If they don't think that's fair, then they obviously aren't willing to work for it and thus don't deserve it in the first place.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 00:52, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

I know. Probably needed to reword that better, but my point remains the same: people become candidates by having a high contribution and activity, then the community selects the winner. What's wrong with that system? Sure the candidates may not always change, but if people were a bit more active that might change.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 01:14, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

I guess, Myself and I (pun intended) have been pretty much a first on the poll, Myself has been on there only 1 other time (since I joined), and this is my first run. Maybe the last 2 winners can not be featured, thereby opening it up another slot, I'm fine with either way though. -- 01:18, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

I try and work it to be fair. I left ST out of it for months because he won whenever he was on, at one point 3 times in a row. But really, the only way to change it is for Users to be active and contributing. It took me months but look at me: I managed to get on there.--Kagi mizu -Seeya 'round 01:23, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

I think it might be tedious since some people would essentially be voting twice for Users.--Kagi mizu -Seeya <font color="#FFA500">'round 01:36, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

Well how do we do this over the course of a month?--<font color="#0000FF">Kagi <font color="#FF0000">mizu -<font color="#008000">Seeya <font color="#FFA500">'round 01:52, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

We don't need to make a forum - that is unnecessary. Just eliminate the past 2-3 FU winners each round, and put the next active top 5 users with the most edits - that slightly opens it up, and is what I suggested earlier - lets do that. -- 01:54, October 29, 2011 (UTC)

I think we do need a forum, because this discussion is getting way too long for this talk page. I'm gonna move this discussion to one now. EDIT: Done. -- Supermorff 09:43, October 29, 2011 (UTC)