Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-27765057-20131017013322/@comment-1272757-20131017014724

I was busy this month, that's all. I was able to get HS's interview done, and the month before I was preparing for college, hence Monk's delay. I DO actually make a point of trying to maintain some variety, but I am NOT going to try and put in people just for variety's sake. You need to be active and you need to have a real and POSITIVE impact on both the wiki as a whole and the community itself. Sure we have a large userbase, but that doesn't mean there are a lot of people who deserve to be Featured User. Similar to how adminship is a privilege that needs to be earned, so does a nomination.

I'm sorry if you disagree, but Featured User is not just some means to ask random Users ten various questions. It's for the community to get to know and learn about its most influential and most popular Users. This is something that needs to be earned, and as such I only put up Users who edit quite often and appear to have a big and positive impact on the wiki. Hence why I removed myself from the nominations quite a while ago. Because "Featured User" is supposed to actually mean something, the standards I hold for it mean that there's a relatively small number of people that qualify, which may or may not change over time depending on the contributions of Users. As such, it's not like someone can be a Featured User once per year; hell, up until recently it was possible for once every other month. Plus, on SNN the rules are even more strict, requiring the nominees be the top eight people with the most editcounts on the wiki.