This means that we would need to have some two tier voting systems and most of the local sections are not active enough for something like that.
To avoid complications, what we could do is to nominate and select one overall best user for each active local section, for each year, and I would support that idea.
We could also pick one best and most local member from all local sections, or something like that... this could also motivate new members to be more active.
I'm not entirely sure the best way of going about it. I just think it's something that's worth considering for future votes if this was to become a yearly thing for the foreseeable future. The only users that know the best user would be the local communities themselves, so they would have to get their heads together, vote for someone, and then present that to OP. To avoid complications, what we could do is to nominate and select one overall best user for each active local section, for each year, and I would support that idea.
We could also pick one best and most local member from all local sections, or something like that... this could also motivate new members to be more active.
Though, logistically you're probably right, that narrowing the local section nominations down to "Local section hero" per local section or something along that lines is probably better, than having all roles available for voting per local section.
Almost seems like some people just nominate the ones that have given Merits to other people voting for them.
As bad as it makes me feel, I will also not give any Merits to people voting for me.
Also I am pretty sure the vouchers are an even bigger motivation for them to just vote vor someone.
Undoubtedly, is a factor in some votes. Unfortunately, there's no real way of mitigating it, unless you did votes that were anonymous, however that opens another can of words. Anyway, has stated already it's a drop in the ocean compared to the amount that these users require to rank up. So, its not like someone is going to rank up their alt farm this way or even their account that they just do bounties on. As bad as it makes me feel, I will also not give any Merits to people voting for me.
Also I am pretty sure the vouchers are an even bigger motivation for them to just vote vor someone.
: franky1
