Forum:CT Archive/Allowing user votes to count on the FAN page

With the recent discussion over the FAN and the Inquisitorius, I've decided to propose something I've wanted to see happen for a while now. The featured article nominations page, at present, makes it so only Inqvotes count toward an article's promotion. This discourages users from reviewing, I know I had little interest in reviewing on the FAN before I was an Inq. So I'm proposing making the FAN a little more like the good article nominations page in terms of voting. We can all see how successful the GAN has become, and how many people review and vote on articles, and I think the FAN would benefit greatly from using a similar system.

What I'm proposing is a tiered system, where the more user votes an article gets, the less Inqvotes are required for it to pass, with a minimum of 3 Inqvotes required on any nomination. My proposal is as follows: And then any number of user or Inq votes can make up the differences.
 * If an article gets 5 total votes, it needs 5 Inqvotes to pass
 * If an article gets 6 total votes, it needs 4 Inqvotes to pass
 * If an article gets 7 or more total votes, it needs 3 Inqvotes to pass

The snowballing clause of 7 Inqvotes and single-issue voting policy and all other current policies still apply, this only deals with allowing user votes to count and mean less Inqvotes are needed.

I believe this would be a great step forward for the FAN, would encourage users to review and breed potential new Inqs in the process. Please discuss if you have any questions or concerns, and discuss before creating any vote-splitting options.

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 * 1) Grunny  ( talk ) 01:34, May 9, 2010 (UTC)