Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25941663-20150119211557/@comment-24304936-20150121134356

MrDupin wrote: LOLSKELETONS wrote: Yeah, PotM has always been a broken system. The idea is for the community to select the best pastas each month, but in practice it's just sort of a popularity contest where quality isn't always guaranteed. Then why don't we change it?

Because, although the system might not be popular in your and other users' eyes, this is still a community. The vote allows all of our users to have a say on what gets plastered to the front page. Is this a completely air-tight system? Of course not. But it still empowers the users here. I'd also like to point out that we screen the stories that are submitted as PotM for quality i.e. we don't let stories that are terrible get on the vote template.

Your idea for having PotM as a pasta submitted that month is very flawed. Hypotheically, let's say we have one month where nothing but second-rate stories that barely meet QS are submitted. If we changed the rule to your proposition, we'd have to have a subpar piece of work on our front page. Ehh...no thanks.

Also, I have to disagree with what you said with allowing more than one nomination per user. This bloats the ever-living Christ out of the nominations page. One story per user, per month is fine how it is. No need to nominate more than one story. Wait until next month.

In short, I'm glad you came in with some ideas here, but sadly it's nothing that hasn't been debated and combed over before.