BIONICLE G1 Canon Contests Discussion & Questions

[Eljay]

@Altron

Would it be fair if these prequisites for voting are made well available and informed - perhaps in an automated private message - for any new users who are solely interested in contributing to their favorite toyline rather than the community surrounding it?

These perquisites are publicly available and the Trust Levels topic has been around since around the Boards were started. That being said, we do have a bot that sends a message to new users upon account creation that links to helpful topics to get them accustomed to the boards. What I can do is check to make sure the proper links are sent out, because one of them appears to be to the Discourse general information on Trust Levels.

@Godzilla

I could understand such changes put in place for a vote that affected TTV. After all, outsiders shouldn’t meddle with TTV if they do not have a stake in it. But this vote is to establish actual canon for the entire community. For many people, they just want to make an account and vote, and be done with it. In my eyes, this seems wrong, as it limits voters into waiting 35 minutes and jumping through hoops in order to vote. These limits also were not in place at the start of the contest or this phase of the contest. That’s rather unfair to those who already have lost their positions.

We’re willing to move it down to 30 minutes, but your largest issue seems to be waiting. This is not uncommon with websites that hosts contests such as this, as it has been in the past with prior canon contests.

This is the compromise. Anyone can vote for any reason they want, but they’re going to need to put some effort in before they can do it. This isn’t unordinary and we’re not going to remove it as a stipulation. But we are open to altering it.