20 candidates, not 20 authors' characters. Why are we changing that? It has worked for two years now. If anything, one character per author (LOL).

Also:

Rajaa said, December 03, 2012, 09:52:57 pm

I kinda like the 20 character limit, remember we have to enter each candidate manually when the poll starts, that's very tedious.

I haven't read through the entire topic and won't have time until the end of the day, but to be more representative, I think we should only allow 3 characters to be nominated per user.

Actually, thinking about it, this may be an even better solution than simply lifting the limit. There's already a limit to the number of characters we can choose when the actual voting takes place, so a nomination limit, say 3-5 chars per user, would make sense and would seem to address most of the gripes I've read.

Rajaa would get to keep his 20 character limit.

Everyone would get a chance to participate since no 3 members would get to monopolize the available nomination slots.

I think it would also greatly address the whole issue of how many nominations a single author could have. In order for all of Ikaruga's characters to become candidates, for example, would require differing nominations from at least nine to twelve different members, which, while possible, would be highly unlikely.

Also it means that you'll have to actually pick and choose which characters you'd REALLY like to see nominated, rather than simply copy/pasting a laundry list of everything under the sun.

Regardless, if some kind of a limit is to remain in place, whether characters or authors, then there HAS to be a limit on nominations as well. Otherwise the crux of the problem (the limited nominations decided by only a handful of people, the majority of the forum not getting a chance to participate) would remain.