Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3991308-20160412232716/@comment-10233964-20160808113821

First of all, if you've noticed, I acknowledged that you knew about this being a popularity contest. So basically there was no need in point one to be hashed over like this :)

And I frankly couldn't care less If my OCs get votes or not. Its not about getting serious either. Except when you consider more fairness as being more serious.

Also I know how this USED to be. I'm not here since only yesterday. Nothging against the blind votes. But at least share a ranking. You know what I mean? Like I said, just to know If my OC stood at meast a chance.

You could always make a list public without allowing comments on it. That also prevents from user going berserk over the results?

Again, I don't have anything against the blind voting. Its a good Idea actually. What I have a problem with is that popular ppls ocs will be showcased and that there are lots of good OCs that should get some attention as well. First of all, not everyone is that kind of person that is open enough to just jump in. Imagine you are new into a class where everyone else knows one another. Thats scary as well. And I bet for some it is here as well, even though they have the anonymity of the internet...and maybe having a chance to win this would help to actually get a hang of it?

How about a new section like underdog (sorry, im German and I'm not sure if this word is accurate) of the month? Where...maybe the admins introduce a nice OC of a user usually not that popular in the fandom? I know this could result in some work though. Maybe if you rotate? Over at the Monster High fandom I was planing to do something like that: bigrikas character of the month, where I look at OCs that nobody has looked at so far and promote it a bit, also rewarding the winner with a fanart by me. The reasons why this didn't happen so far is 1) All of them are here now, Monster High Fandom is as good as dead. At least the wikia. and 2) Studying eats more time than I previousely thought. However I think it still should be doable once every month...but then again 1) hinders me from doing it. But here, It could work. Unfortunately nobody cares about me and what I think because I'm not that prominent here...so...why don't the admins try that? They can cut the fanart prize as well because being recognized by an admin also is some sort of prize, right? :)

Again, just some suggestions :)