Staff Member/ Member of the Month Options

[sprezzatura]

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this topic...

Anyway, I think the "Staff Member of the Month" and "Member of the Month" threads at the Lounge are mostly spam.

Isn't that thread supposed to be nominatons and suggestions?

The majority of the posts in these threads are "Congrats _______! You really deserve it."
As I was skimming through replies in these threads, only like 4 or 5 replies are nominations, the other 30 something replies are those "Congrats!" spams or unnecessary arguments.

If members want to congratulate the winners, they could just simply do it through PM or ALONG WITH THEIR NOMINATIONS.

I know the staff votes out FROM THE NOMINATIONS, which the staff votes from the one or two people that got nominated (because there are only 4-5 people nominated, and usually the same people are being nominated, so the nominated members have like a 50% chance of winning).

I don't mean that they don't deserve the SMoTM or MoTM, but could the amount of spam in these threads be reduced and add more nominations in?

Just stating my own opinion.