Board Thread:Community Announcements/@comment-4787430-20130328024410/@comment-3186827-20130328171652

I suppose my previous comment was not understood by some people, so I'll make it clearer.

The MOTM is awarded to a user who helps out with the day-to-day editing and patrolling of mainspace articles - not blog or forum comments, no matter how frequent or helpful.

This means that if the majority of a user's contributions are only on the blogs or forums, the votes for said users are not counted in this nomination process - as the original post clearly explained. Secondly, self votes are not counted for obvious reasons.

This is not to discourage people who post on the blogs, but it needs to be clear that the MOTM award is for people who have significantly helped with the mainspace pages.