Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4050367-20140208183710/@comment-4050367-20140214110231

Maximus Loo2012 wrote: Sci100 wrote: I can honestly say... the first meeting of the Fanon Con Commitee SUCKED (for different reasons). However, we got our job done, and as part of the new system for Fanon Con, we have 4 potential users who YOU, the community will decide which one is to be crowned "Host of Spring Fanon Con 2014".

And the nominees are:


 * 1) Ulti
 * 2) Lego
 * 3) Dark
 * 4) Brandon.

To keep things nice and to keep no feelings hurt, the only thing that will be accepted is "I vote for ". DO NOT say why you are voting for them, or why you are not voting for any of the others, because you never know if you might hurt someone's feelings.

Voting will last until Friday, February 14th, 2014. So... vote now!

Reminder: All Users who sign up for Fanon Con will have to start using Template:Fanon Con Submission on their Fanon Con pages. This is to make the job easier for the Host, and to get Fanon Con out and running quicker.

Alien Fest: Its coming, more info will be released later this month! Wow...a populatiry contest.... First of all, I can tell very well at you have a distaste for this system judging by the way you said that (the Tone). The point of this is because we need an actual process to figuiring out who the next host will be instead of "Hey random person, want to be host? Okay!".

Secondly, the reason why I stated "DO NOT SAY why you are voting for them, or why you are not voting for any of the others", and why Paper said "This should be extended to not saying why you SHOULD or SHOULD NOT vote for someone, not just why you DID or DID NOT vote for someone" is because I don't want it to become something its not.

Thirdly, if you're assuming the nominees were chosen because they're popular, that's not at all why they were chosen. All four nominees were considered by the Fanon Con Commitee (which I created and are a member of) and nominated to be host due to their: Experience, Length of time on the wiki, Activeness, and the ability to handle all the duties, responsiblites, and challenges of being the host. All four could be wonderful hosts. Any "popularity" to anyone is completely by chance. But we are going to consider those who make 200+ edits within 1 and a 1/2 months into the year more than those who make a mere 17 edits. 200 suggests being active, 17 edits ... doesn't really cut it. The only exception is being active on chat, which is why not all users are going to be nominated, and when we don't have a large group of users who we feel can be host, we get limited. When we limited, we get Lego, Dark, Brandon, and Ulti, four users who fit that tiny little box.

Fourthly, we have a rule stating that after you host, you CAN NOT HOST the next two 'Cons. So Nick couldn't be nominated for this one. I couldn't be nominated for this one or even the next one. The Host of THIS Fanon Con will not be able to be nominated until Winter Fanon Con 2014, and voting for the host is in November.

Finally, I will add this to the message in May next time, but this was what I was trying to get at: 'Don't vote for people because you like them, vote for people because they can do everything they need to and have to to be a successful, efficent, and good host. '

And anyway, I'd like to announch that Lego was "elected" host for the Spring Fanon Con 2014. I hope you are all happy with that, and even if you aren't, there's a chance Ulti, Dark, and Brandon can still be nominated next time.

Thank you for voting.