User blog comment:HerrMana/Just a Proposal/@comment-1874924-20121201195652

I think that going to a longer cycle is likely to create as many problems as it solves. Most of the voting tends to come in the first few days or the last few. (Back in the days when voter turnout was high, the contenders in a hot race would pick up votes throughout the month, but those days appear to be long gone.) Partly because of this clustering effect, and the attended possibility that people who vote early might not look at the ballot again, all or nearly all of the nominations are posted in the first day or two. The result is that going to a longer cycle would probably just mean longer dead periods between the bursts of activity. It might also depress the overall level of nominating/voting activity, because a monthly cycle is probably the easiest for people to remember when one cycle ends and the next begins.