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Originally Posted by Crow

the old monthly kudos rules were actually a lot more unfair. every time, the winning otm was created by a popular person and voted for because hey had a lot of friends, or a high rank who got attention simply for their position.

it was impossible to apply a less well-known otm because no one would vote for them, even if they did deserve it. randomizing the results allows anything to be nominated, regardless of how well-known it is. the voting was a flawed system and basically a popularity contest.

it simply makes no sense to have a voting system. otms would return to only winning because they were popular characters or rped by a popular user.

I can say from personal experience that that is actually untrue, I had won and I barely knew anyone on the site. They voted not because I was popular or anything like that, but because they genuinely believed I should win. And that's how I use to vote as well. When I won I was nearly a new member and I was so happy to have won - though now there is no point in voting since not everybody can vote for who they think should win :/