Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-25345354-20140821162245

Since voting time for the summer awards has come around (and been around for a little bit already, too), I couldn't help but notice something earlier today that seems to have been happening for the past few seasons with the award voting as well.

Users nobody has seen around before popping up out of nowhere to do nothing but vote, that give absolutely no reasoning for why their votes are the way they are, and not even allowing commenting on the blog, so people can't comment asking why their pages and etc. got the votes that they did, without having to go to the blog creator's talk page to ask them there.

In my opinion, when you say absolutely nothing about why your votes are the way they are and won't even let people ask, it kind of ruins the point of the awards, as these votes could be for any reason. For example, there was an instance where one user's votes gave the heavy impression that they were judging the pages entirely by name, confusing a character for a female when it was blatantly obvious said character was male, etcetera.

And voting takes time, I know. Not everyone has the time to type out explanations for every last vote they make, but my point here is that the very least we could do is make having commenting enabled be mandatory for voting blogs.

A few users I've spoken to have also suggested adding rules such as a required number of edits to be able to vote, and having been on the wiki for a certain amount of time before being able to vote. 