Maybe use ranked choice voting? 
I’m on board with allowing more votes per person.
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We have received permission from the KDE sysadmins to run our poll on survey.kde.org
So far I have not fully evaluated it. But I think our voting system will be better with this.
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That’s great news, @raghukamath.
Should we increase the number of nominations each of us can make for the monthly poll? Currently we can only nominate one image.
I propose the limit be moved to 4 per month.
This idea has been brought up before and was mentioned again in @Mythmaker’s comment this morning.
I feel frustrated again having to pass on so many other worthy pieces - even more so as I missed a month. I wish we could nominate more than one!
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Definitively we should, and that was my biggest issue with the new system, that we will see not enough pictures that were worth being nominated.
Michelist
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I don’t know how best to balance things out. 
We don’t tend to get much participation in either the nominating or the voting. Having a lot of nominations means more pieces get a chance, but the votes will be spread out more thinly. I don’t know if that will be problem - it might increase the risk of a tied result, but maybe that’s okay?
It doesn’t really help with the problem of bias caused by only a few people nominating i.e. pieces nominated according to the tastes of the few who are willing.
One thing I’ve mentioned before is about having the thread stickied so it remains visible - to encourage participation. I think you do that already, but it’s not implemented quite the way I’d hoped - I think it needs to be persistent so it doesn’t fall of the radar once a member has seen it.
My feeling is that we should have more votes, but two or three - so we’re still encouraged to consider our choices. Couple this with a permanent stickied thread so it’s kept visible and in awareness of all users. Hopefully that will improve the participation problem - generating further nominations and improving the vote numbers.
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1st idea
What we can do is increase the number of nominations per user and also reduce the time period of feature to 15 days. So each month can have 11 featured images (excluding one from the monthly challenge) . If we see less participation on a particular month then we can switch the feature time to 1 month.
Another Idea
We can also queue (this is manual to be done by moderators each day) posts to be featured so each day we can feature new post and the front page will have some change in artwork and also each artwork will get 1 month and the featured row will look fresh.
Both ideas can have more votes as well as more nomination per user. So a user can choose may be upto 5 images regardless of the time period in which the artwork was submitted. Then there can be two monthly polls where users can select top 5. Each top 5 will be queued for feature. We can run the poll in 15 days interval
Wildcard entry of most liked artwork
In addition to this voting process we can have one (or two) more entry to the feature queue by taking most liked image during that month directly enter the queue without polling. If it is already nominated we wait to see if it wins if not we will have it in queue due to number of likes, if it wins then we can take the second most liked post for that month. I can already see many artworks with likes in this page sorted by top posts - Finished Artworks - Krita Artists
@Mythmaker and @raghukamath I’ve been thinking about all your ideas (I went ahead and posted the new submissions thread to keep things on schedule – please don’t take that as lack of interest in your ideas).
I recommend we keep the same monthly cycle for this calendar year as we’ve promised to hold a Best of K-A 2024 poll in January.
I also recommend we increase the number of submissions each member can make in a given month to 3 or 4. The current submissions thread can be edited and an announcement sent out.
For 2025, maybe we can make some more sweeping changes, such as reverting to the previous manual process where the moderators are continually featuring images and there is no poll (to your point, @raghukamath, it would keep the banner constantly refreshed).
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