User blog comment:The Symphonic Taco/Moderator Nominations January 2017/@comment-24561298-20170112011823

Hey, it's me again. I hope I am not getting annoying, but I am going to run for forum mod. As previously mentioned in my admin self-nomination, I've been here for the shortest time in comparison to the other running mods. However, I believe that I have become a trustworthy member of the community by being active most times (as Blake said, I was semi-active for about two months, which were my transitioning from where I used to live to where I live right now), constantly writing tributes that I put lots of effort on, and being generally nice to everyone in the wiki. Regarding now to the TOTM contest, I always read new tributes as soon as I see them in wiki activity, and although I normally don't comment, I always have my opinions on them.

As of now, I've had one TOTM and one featured tribute of the week. I know how a good character with an interesting personality and a captivating backstory looks like, and I'm always impartial when it comes to who was the user that created the tribute. I've heard from a few users that sometimes they felt the TOTM was biased, and the ones who had a say on it only kept the backstories in mind when comparing the tributes, thus, making it seem like Backstory of the Month, instead. To avoid this, I came up with a system. How this would work, is that anyone would be able to nominate up to three characters. One of them could be theirs, but only if they nominate at least one more character (I actually think you did something similar for TOTM before). Either way, the nominated characters would be read with a critical perspective, and then the finalists would be decided. Once the finalists are decided, a rubric I came up with would be used to score them from 1-10 taking into account 5 different parameters: creativity, effort, originality, personality and backstory. Even if there only would be one TOTM, the runner-ups would be mentioned, at least in the TOTM page. As many of you know, when I commit myself to something, I do everything I can (and sometimes beyond that) to not only finish what I commit myself to, but also do it as good as it can be made, and I plan to do just that with TOTM.