Template:Suggestion Voting

=Voting=
 * 1) You are voting on Suggestions, not Users. The text of your vote should not personally attack or degrade the user who has submitted it... no matter how ridiculous the idea. Flaming and/or Trolling will not be tolerated and may be treated as vandalism if it occurs often.
 * 2) Before voting please read Peer Reviewed Suggestions, Peer Rejected Suggestions, and Undecided Suggestions to read about concepts that have been brought up in the past. You do not need to read all of the suggestion but they are worth consideration before casting a vote.
 * 3) One vote per user. No exceptions. You cannot use multiple wiki accounts to vote on a suggestion.
 * 4) To Vote, click the link to the suggestion you wish to vote for. Use the [edit] button next to the suggestions header. Then enter your vote in either the suggest_for_votes, suggest_against_votes or the suggest_other_votes field. Please ensure that your vote is placed before the double brackets of the particular suggestion (ie the "}}")
 * 5) Votes must include a signature in order to be considered valid votes. To sign a vote, use -- ~ . Please remember to sign your votes! Unsigned votes will be deleted when found.
 * 6) Each Suggestion will be open to voting for two (2) weeks, measured from the suggestion's Timestamp, unless it is a Dupe or Spaminated.  If, at the end of that time, there are two thirds (2/3) more Keep votes than Kill votes, the Suggestion will be moved to the Peer Reviewed Suggestions page. If the suggestions has more then 50% keeps but no more then 2/3rd's of keeps then it will be moved to Undecided Suggestions. Otherwise, the Suggestion will be moved to the Peer Rejected Suggestions page.

Rules for Discussions
Votes are NOT the place to discuss Suggestions. If you wish to discuss any of the suggestions or votes here, please use the suggestion's Talk page. Suggestions do not have to be submitted in order to discuss them. The Suggestions talk page can be used to workshop possible suggestions before they are submitted.

Valid Votes

 * Vote Keep, for Suggestions that you believe have merit.
 * Vote Kill, for Suggestions that you believe do not have merit. If you need to discuss a rule fix, use the discussion page.
 * Vote Spam, for Suggestions that cannot be implemented because it would ruin gameplay, makes no sense, or is overtly misinformed.
 * Suggestions can be removed with Spam votes as described below in the Removing Suggestions section. If the criterion described there are not fulfilled, the suggestion must remain for the whole two weeks.
 * Spam votes are simply here to prevent the utterly ridiculous from clogging up the system. If you do not like the idea, and it does not come under the Spam criteria, VOTE KILL, NOT SPAM.


 * Vote Dupe, for Suggestions that are exact or very close duplicates of previous suggestions. For a Dupe vote to be valid, a link must be provided to the original suggestion. Three Dupe votes linked to the same suggestion may remove it from voting as described below.

Invalid Votes

 * Server Load and Programming Complexity are NOT very good Kill reasons. You are voting on the merit of the suggestion and whether or not you think it belongs in the game. Server load/complexity issues are up to Mo to decide.
 * X should be implemented first or X is better are not a valid reasons for a vote. You are voting on the merit of THIS suggestion, not how it compares to others.
 * Votes that do not have relevant reasoning behind them are invalid. You MUST justify your vote.

Comments

 * Re may be used to comment on a vote. Only the original author and the person being REd can comment. Comments are restricted to a single comment per vote, and it is expected that Re comments be as short as possible. Reing every kill vote is considered abuse of the Re comment. A Re does not count as a vote, and any subsequent discussion not part of the Re comment should be held on the discussion page if there is any extended commenting.
 * Note is used by moderators to invalidate trolling-based votes. Only moderators may remove troll-based votes and they do so with a strikeout    in order to preserve the trolling removal for posterity.  The voter may contest the strikeout with the moderator that struck their vote out on the discussion page.  Only a moderator may remove a strikeout.
 * Try to avoid YELLING, writing in bold, or using italics, except when emphasizing a point which has escaped other voters.

Examples of valid votes

 * 1) Keep - I am the author and I am allowed to vote once on my own suggestions. --MrSuggester 05:01, 11 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 2) Spam - Titanic Beetle-Flinging Cyclops on a Centaur is an inappropriate Creature. --NoFunAtAll 09:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 3) Keep - Best. Suggestion. Evar. --Bob_Necromancer 04:01, 11 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 4) Kill - This is a terrible idea, but you can totally fix it up. --NegativeGal 06:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 5) *Re - Please be more specific about how to fix it on the discussion page. --MrSuggester 14:01, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 6) **Re - Sure, I have detailed my proposed fixes here. --NegativeGal 23:38, 12 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 7) Kill - You will eat my poopie and love it! --PooEater 11:12, 13 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 8) *Note - Inane vote removed. Defend in discussion. --DaModerator 11:13, 13 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 9) Dupe - Duplicate Suggestion --AnotherSuggester 05:01, 14 Nov 2005 (GMT)
 * 10) Keep - Good sugestion.   no signature --FakeSuggester 07:39, 15 Nov 2005 (GMT) 

=Removing Suggestions= Suggestions can be removed for two reasons:
 * Dupe If a suggestion is a duplicate of an earlier one, and has received three Dupe votes linked to the same suggestion, then it can be removed as per the conditions stated below.
 * Spam If a suggestion is deemed by the community to be either not made seriously, or simply completely awful and not worthy of inclusion on the Suggestion page for a two-week period, it can be Spaminated. The suggestion is sent to the Peer-Rejected page as per the conditions below.

Eligibility for Spamination is achieved if there are at least 7 Spam/Dupe votes and the number of Spam/Dupe votes are equal to 2/3rds or greater of the total number of votes, with the author vote included in all these tallies.

Authors are not allowed to use Re: to defend their work or correct the editor after a suggestion has been removed.

When removing a Suggestion, you take the responsibility to be mature regarding the situation. Each Suggestion is an author's child and they can be come quite passionate in regards to the Suggestion's removal. Please do the following when removing a Suggestion:


 * Duplicate - If the removed Suggestion is a duplicate, you must:
 * Confirm that there are absolutely no viable differences between the original and the duplicate.
 * List the number of Dupe Votes received.
 * Provide a link(s) to the Suggestion that it duplicates.
 * Optionally note the Linked Suggestion status: Reviewed/Undecided/Rejected.
 * Sign the removal.
 * Be Polite and make no additional comments.


 * Spaminated - If the removed Suggestion has become eligible for Spamination, you must:
 * List the number of Spam Votes received and the total number of votes.
 * State that the Suggestion was Spaminated.
 * List or summarize/paraphrase the comments/reasons made on the Spam votes.
 * Move the suggestion to Peer Rejected Suggestions page.
 * Sign the removal.
 * Be Polite and make no additional comments.

It is your responsibility to be a mature editor.