Club Penguin Wiki:Archive/New PotM System

Right, it's Tigernose again. I'm getting a little fed up with our current Penguin of the Month competition. Okay, not a little - a lot! I hate it! We have requests everywhere, there are people who are there and quit two years ago and even people who win but haven't edited for a month. No offense to Alx or anything, but his last active editing period was back when September started!

I want to change this. The vote we have is corrupt. People vote for themselves, or their friends and whenever they see someone winning - they vote for them. I really want the poll to be removed and replaced with a typical "section for and against vote", like the ones we have in the new Wall of Fame system. This ensures nobody requesting to be up there and no cheating. And I mean it, this way you cannot cheat.

Simple as that, "for" and "against", follows the same guidelines as the new user rights and wall of fame system, except votes are cleared every month. Penguin with the highest vote difference wins and is featured on the main page. Also, below the name would be a little quote from the "comments" section.
The quote will be chosen by the winner so for example if Seahorseruler said this in the comments section:

"<User> has been really great this month. He has helped with so many things!"

and Sharkbate says this:

"<User> has had some great ideas. He's awesome!"

the winner then decides which quote is the best, and the decided quote is inserted below the name as if it was a quote in an article.

This really would stop requests and cheating and corrupted winning. Oh yes, you need to nominated by one person and it has to be confirmed by an administrator.

Vote nao.

For

• I voted nao.--Ced1214 ^{Talk Page} 19:04, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
• --Zapwire (File:Emailzw.png) 12:40, October 10, 2009 (UTC)
• For. --Jaller2 ^{Call me Mr. Flintstone!}
• Definately! Dancing Penguin http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/6/6c/Smile_spin.gif (Talk!) 17:16, October 15, 2009 (UTC)
• File:WOMPUS! DESTROYER OF EVIL!.gif (File:Talk.PNG||BLOCKS!) 19:20, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
• YessirLeekduck (vote for me, and you will get a hot dog) 11:03, October 24, 2009 (UTC)

Against

• Im tired of all these un needed changes.. Theres nothing wrong with what we have. >_> --seahorseruler |Talk (EditCount) Yoshi! 20:19, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

• I'm sorry guys but there is nothing wrong how things are now!--Europea^{Talk to me} 00:52, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

• Why I'm saying no: 1. I personally wouldn't bother anymore if I had to write something every time. 2. IP's can't do this, and they are very important in the polls. In short, it's unnecessary time consumption. While thinking you have respect might be important to you, Tigernose, it isn't in the long run. Also, I don't see how people can cheat unless they have a dynamic IP or using a proxy, as you can only vote once in a poll as far as I know. But really, it's not that important, get over it.

--4th hale (talk) 19:48, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

• Ummm... I'm all up for change but is this change really necessary right now? --LarryGoesRawr! LOL! 05:09, October 24, 2009 (UTC)

Discussion

• Seahorseruler, for those who want to win this competition, it's really unfair for them when there's an inactive user either cheating or winning. --Թայգէրնոս ^(Chat|Edits) 20:40, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
  • Well then remove inactive users. We should just pick active users every month.--seahorseruler |Talk (EditCount) Yoshi! 21:01, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

• How does that make it fair? People can still cheat. The proposed system is way better. --Թայգէրնոս ^(Chat|Edits) 15:31, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

• Well if they are cheating, We could just take them off and give them a warning! --Europea^{Talk to me} 00:54, October 11, 2009 (UTC)

• You see Europea, we cannot take them off, because polls deactivate when changed!

I think that they have to be nominated because its the same people every month it never changes and there are people who have already won PotM sitll on the list and one of the rules is once yove been penguin of the month you cant win again so we deffinatly need a new way to work this out--Brendan7195 ^{Viva la Wii} 20:12, October 20, 2009 (UTC)

• If you agree, vote for - we need all the votes we can get. --Tigernose Chat • Edits 20:40, October 20, 2009 (UTC)

• You can cheat by voting for yourself... or making multiple accounts, or telling others to vote for you. Can't a nomination system solve this? If it can't, why don't we remove this altogether? Because people like the PotM... --Tigernose Chat • Edits 19:56, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
• Considering the scale of some votes, those techniques are pretty much useless. I'm surprised anybody would even bother going through so much trouble just for something like this, but I stand my ground on this.

--4th hale (talk) 20:01, October 22, 2009 (UTC)

• Have you seen the amount of complaints and requests on PoTM talk page! It would be better off to remove the Penguin of the Month contest if this won't go through - because it is going nowhere! --Tigernose Chat • Edits 11:38, October 24, 2009 (UTC)