Board Thread:Community Votes/@comment-2189707-20150415071653/@comment-4457960-20150416170559

Wes Holden wrote:

MRace2010 wrote:

Wes Holden wrote: Liam if the Admins do get to pick these spotlight then you know any time an admin wins people are going to freak out since since the board just choose one of their own to win.

Admins choosing a winner is just flawed in concept. It was fine the way it was before though you could add in the rule that a user can win multiple times and users still get to vote and that can be a way for featureds to improve in your terms and also you include the wiki cause right now you are trying to implement something a majority of the wiki hates While I do agree with the multiple winning times (which makes the user more prompt to work in the following time) I don't really see why it is unfair for us admins to be like jurors. Even if the spotlight goes to an admin it might mean that admin has done something, right? And since admins can contrast other admins in choices it shouldn't become much of a hustle

Race there is two problems I have with the admins picking a winner. First with the admins picking it is still a vote and it is STILL a popularity contest but there will be a lot less people voting each time. With that lets say that all the admins hate one particular user but the rest of the wiki loves that user. They would normally win the wiki vote but since the admins get to choose the winner they will never win. No matter what rules you apply any vote is going to be a popularity contest.

Also having the admins choose a winner in my opinion have the wrong people winning. In the current system no deed is overlooked. There are users on all the time who see what the other users are doing a vote according to those principles. In contrast there is a good amount of time each day where there are no admin or CM's on chat. If an incident were to happen on chat with one of these users while no cm's or admins are on chat and only regular users see it, then in the current system us regular users can go vote according in the featureds based on the actions. Though in contrast if the admins pick the winners then they cannot fairly judge the incident because the only versions of the event they are going to get is a biased ones since none of the saw the incident and might very easily pick a user to win who does not deserve to win. Admins therefore in my opinion cannot make an informed decision to who should win the featured/spotlight. Look the idea of having users or camps or whatever have multiple wins isnt bad i actually think its kinda neat but restriction this vote to the administration will make it lose its value and then soon enough the population of the wiki won't have any say in the matter and lose interest in it. Then the spotlight will become a farce.

Now i'm not saying all of the concept of the spotlights are bad but there are many good things about them that can be used to CHANGE the format the FEATUREDS have been done.