Forum:Some issues with Featured Editor

It's been 2 months since The Black Scorpion topped the nominations for Featured Editor, and by the end of this month, it will be the 3rd month. Ever since, I haven't updated Featured Editor since May for ThomasWikia. The thing is, The Black Scorpion has been in the nomination list for a very long time (since May 2012), and his votes accumulate until now. I know The Black Scorpion has made numerous valuable contributions to our wiki, but it would be silly to reward him the June / July FE for the months he didn't even contribute in. If he'd been rewarded in the months before, it would still make sense.

This has happened before to Farhanmendel too, who made contributions to The Sims Social. He was nominated for quite a long time, until he was up for FE in March 2012, but he had stopped editing in November 2011. He returned in June 2012, though, but that's irrelevant since his FE reward was due late anyway.

I think the problem is in the nomination & voting rules. Once a user is nominated, it will stay indefinitely, maybe for a really long time until he/she accumulate enough votes and become the FE. The user might've been inactive by the time they became the FE. This will be unfair for users who actually made contributions on that month. If this keeps happening, we might end up in a queuing problem where old nominees are up late, and late nominees are up even later.

I want to ask what the community thinks about this. Do you feel this is an issue? Do you have any solutions for this? I want to know what you think about this before proposing any ideas.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  04:57, July 7, 2013 (UTC)