User blog comment:ThisIsLucid/Practically a banning note, but what the heck!/@comment-25052433-20170126042818

I totally support the idea of putting the PoTM voting back in the hands of the site members. As has been said below though, the challenge is in keeping it legit. Much like out long gone chat room, people simply couldn't seem to keep with the simple requests of "keep things clean around here." People were cheating on the polls, but what was worse, a lot of people just voted for whatever story already had the most votes. When there are a dozen or so stories up, it is highly unlikely that everyone is going to really sit down and spend hours reading through them all.

That is the challenge. If we are going to have a community vote, it has to be a real vote. Even if you see your favorite story of all time, it is still important to view them all, just to make sure that something else isn't even better. With the sanctity of the vote, we end up hosting more of a popularity contest than a contest of quality writing. People who work very hard on their stories might get ignored in favor of a well known story of lesser quality, which of course defeats the entire purpose of the PoTM.

If anyone can brainstorm a way to fix this, please feel free to share.