User blog comment:Underscorre/Jeff the Killer Rewrite Contest!/@comment-25148755-20150927051830/@comment-25148755-20150927142703

That's why the judges would eliminate all but the top five or so best. That way the winner would be well written AND popular. Honestly I'd be more fine with having it be strictly judges if the panel were composed of, say, all the admins, minus any who decide to participate in the contest. Cleric, Empy, Skelly and the rest have devoted a crap ton of time to this site and know what good pasta looks like. Of the current judges, the only ones that truly have extended participation on the site are Grim and Dup. Rokk too I suppose, but with only four hundred edits in almost four years they aren't exactly lighting up the wiki. The other three have been around less than a year and have less than four hundred edits between the three of them. Two of them have joined since the beginning of August. For virtually any other contest, freestyle writing competition etc. I'd say that's fine, whatever. But this is JtK. We are making a huge decision as a community to allow this exception. Cripes, we already have probably the most subscribed creepypasta narrator on YouTube signed on to render this story. I just feel that's too much to be decided by a few casual members.