User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/4000th Edit special: Dawn of the Silver Age, and a proposal to the Admins/@comment-1228137-20110918015627/@comment-1874924-20110918025102

Actually, FQ had a semimonthly cycle, with the 1st half open to quotes from any story and the 2nd half limited to a single Featured Story (a restriction I had forgotten about until you mentioned it, else I would have addressed the point in the blog). The problem with the single-story votes, I think, was that too many people hadn't read the specific story that the quotes had to be drawn from.

I think we could retain the semimonthly cycle, but instead of limiting the second half to to a single story, maybe we could use themes like the FC ballot does.