Board Thread:Community Announcements/@comment-4787430-20130328024410/@comment-7153552-20130401160243

Jimeee wrote:

We don't judge based on a pro-rated basis, nor do we judge on the just edit count. It's based on how frequent and significant the total number of contributions are. The vast majority of previous MOTM all had a few thousand solid edits before they were nominated. One user called Shockstorm was only here a month or so, but had made a huge contribution to the mainspace articles and was recognised for it.

This is the difference and it is why the Member or Editor of the Month will only go to someone who has put in a significant amount of time into improving the mainspace.

Finally, a clearer description of the reasoning and process behind it. In one of my several posts somewhere about this it's all I really wanted; either a better understanding of why the rules are what they are, or a shift in the rules to please the masses. I still disagree with the idea that forums (a more personaly way of helping individuals) isn't considered important, and I will most likely frequent this site less because of it. However, there's still good people here and good information to be had. I would like to say that you should change the name of this thread and process, as if you don't take all nomiations by the users on the user selected voting, then it's not much of a nominating or voting process. That's all neither here nor there, though, and I digress.

As for the bit about liking your own stuff on facebook, it is kind of like that. If you quoted the other part, however, you'd understand why I do it - or at least the context would be there and other's would read why I do it. This will be my last post on this thread, so I'll not cause any further problems or waves. No sense in rocking the boat, much like my government tells me I should do, I'll just blindly follow and ignore what I don't agree with or understand.