Forum:Featured Content voting issue

There's an issue with Featured Contents that has bothered me for long. Sometimes there are too few nominees in a Featured Content nomination list, or only a few people voted for something. The problem is that it isn't uncommon that a nominee becomes featured just because it is the sole option, or that it outnumbers the 1-0 vote with the only other nominee. This results a guaranteed outcome just because something is nominated—and not because it's worthy to be featured.

The practice is more obvious in Featured Article, seeing that it only has a couple of nominees each month, and there aren't too many people who participate in this certain Featured Content. I got the impression that we are striving for something to be featured no matter what, as long as it's nominated and it has votes. I personally prefer not to feature anything if nothing is worthy instead.

I'd like to propose to implement a threshold limit for the nominations. Let's say, the threshold is 5 votes. If none of the nominees reach the 5-vote minimum, then nothing is featured, and it will be suspended until the month after. Otherwise, the Featured Content procedure works normally. This may or may not be applied to Featured Editor due to the nature that the votes are cleared up every month.

Any thoughts?  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  13:08, December 1, 2014 (UTC)