User blog:Aquamarinesandopals/November OTM Voting (2017)

Hey, see that in the title? The 2017? Y'know what it means? It's been a solid year of OTM Voting!! This is the first time it's happened in our history and I'm really happy to share that moment with all of you. And, of course, I'm glad to share it with our OTM winners this month!! A huge congratulation to Zena, Vin, and Dana for their work on Airmid, Mirriah, and River. Please leave them some nice comments < 3

NOW before we start, I'm sure some of you have noticed the changes to the front page. I understand there may be frustration at the removal of full body art on the feature spots, but I wanted to share our reasoning why. If you literally don't care about that you can skip the next section, read the rules, and go straight into voting.

This vote will close on the 24th of October at 23h59 GMT.

Discord "Postal" Votes received this month: 0

COTM Rules

 * 1) Users should not vote for OCs that belong to them.
 * 2) An OC who has already won cannot win again.
 * 3) A character with the same destiny as a previous winner cannot win.
 * 4) You (the driver/creator) cannot win an OTM twice in a row.
 * 5) You can only win the OTMs of a given month if you have partaken in the voting for that month.

SOTM Rules

 * 1) You can vote for a ship you have an OC in.
 * 2) OC/Canon is allowed.
 * 3) The ship does not have to be a romantic relationship nor does it have to contain just two OCs. Poly ships or friendships are accepted.
 * 4) All the OCs in your ship must be present on the wikia to win the award. You may vote for ships where this is not the case, but they cannot win until all the OCs have been uploaded.
 * 5) A ship cannot win if a driver involved won SOTM the previous month.

Here's a link to the list of COTM and SOTM winners, please give them a read.

How to Vote
So, you've read the rules, but you may be thinking "That's all very well and good Spades but how do I vote?"

Well hypothetical confused voter, follow these simple steps!

COTM

 * 1) Comment down below which OC you would like to vote for - you can vote for multiple OCs!
 * 2) We encourage comments about the characters and why you like them.
 * 3) Character names should be given in full.
 * 4) Links should be provided anyway, but especially if you've nicknamed the OC in your comment.

SOTM

 * 1) Comment down below, noting the ships you would like to vote for.
 * 2) Please list both / all the OCs involved and their ship name (e.g. 'I'm voting for STEM subjects x Humanities Subjects, aka, "Can We All Just Agree That Philosophy Sucks?"').
 * 3) Once again, we encourage little comments about why you like the ships.

Misc

 * 1) You may vote multiple times and you don't have to do it all at once! If you want to add more votes you may make a new comment or edit your old one.
 * 2) You may vote for COTM/SOTM in the same comment.
 * 3) Please actually list a character or ship! I know it's annoying, but simply saying 'any of x's ocs' does not count as a vote. I don't have the time or energy to research every OC a person has ever made. A character or ship must be named to count.
 * 4) Votes may be submitted to me over Skype in circumstances where it is simply not possible to deliver them over the wikia.

Things to Remember

 * 1) Don't feel pressured to vote for what everyone else has voted for if everyone is voting similarly.
 * 2) The winner may be unexpected as we count all votes from all previous months when deciding who wins.
 * 3) It would be wise to vote for OCs with active users.

In Case of a Tie
The admin team has no specific protocol for a tie, but in the unlikely event we need to pick between two OCs/Ships, we will consider the following:
 * 1) Which OC/Ship has been on the list the longest.
 * 2) How many votes the OC/Ship generally gets per month.
 * 3) Reasons people have given for voting.
 * 4) How many different people have voted for the OC/Ship.