Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4324417-20131126050032/@comment-3323804-20131207045314

Since awards are suppose to be...well, rewarding, I feel like it'd be better and easier to just have the community vote. Users can nominate other users for the categories (and there can even be a requirement for a second to come forward), and then after that's all said and done, the community can vote. It's much more rewarding to see a community back you than it is to see the opinion of a few users.

For awards, promoting users for a few days or weeks should not be an award. That would be irresponsible and frankly shouldn't even a motive. To be recognized by your fellow editors should be incentive enough as that's a pretty large feat. Acknowledgement should be plenty with just a little plaque similar to that of a userbox.