(10-01-2014, 05:40 PM)I - Evertrust Said: At the very least I feel you guys need to rename it something other than star of the month, because it's obvious nobody here goes by that ideology if they're naming Loverboy. It should be called "most regularly consistent RPer of the entire month, regardless of wins." I'm not knocking that idea, but please call it what it really is or correct these people on how they're looking at it ffs. Is there a single person here who can understand why that difference matters, and why this current system is so flawed? Shades and I can't possibly be the only ones that see this. It's right there. Speak up, people. Ask it to be named according to how you're looking at it, or adjust your views to fit its current name. There is no way Loverboy should be getting named even as an afterthought here if you guys are looking at this unbiased.

I agree there is a big discrepancy between the actual name of the accolade and what it is people take into consideration when making their votes.

Superstar Of The Month by it's very name should take into account basically the things that Shades mentioned previously, wins, accolades, generating heat, things of that nature.

However in the year that I have been here that has never been what SOTM has been about. That's not to say that those things didn't matter before, maybe they did. I can only speak to the last year.

The way most people look at it now is that wins shouldn't matter, it's about consistent effort. I don't recall anyone ever saying that you can only look at someone who was consistent for the whole month though that does seem to be what people are looking at.

You are right, staff is not correcting this train of thought and I can't speak for all of the staff so I won't. I will speak for me an say that while I agree that the name is misleading I have no issue with the notion of rewarding someone for effort because at the end of the day this place is supposed to be about having fun regardless of how much you win or lose and that seems to be what the award is rewarding people for while things like titles reward people for how good they are.

If anything this has made it obvious that a further discussion should be had about what this award is and is not and making sure that all the rules are known by those voting for it.