User blog comment:Mister.. E./Themes on Featured Character/@comment-237406-20130211024736/@comment-1874924-20130211040445

We give artists/authors veto power over third-party nominations of their stuff. That seems to me a sufficient safeguard.

We allow third-party nominations for FI and FQ in hopes of getting more nominations in categories that tend to starve for them. FI has already had one third-party nomination win in the brief time since they were allowed. FQ has allowed third-party nominations ever since its revival, and such nominations win with some regularity.