User blog comment:SpaceWeather/Putting a Few Featureds on Hiatus/@comment-1874924-20140713161501

Here are a couple of options:

1) We could open up Feature Story to third-party nominations, subject to the author's veto power. Although this doesnt' seem to have had much long-term impact on the Character, Image or Quote ballots, it might allow some good but nigh-forgotten older stories to be recognized. This change would leave Featured User as the only category that doesn't allow third-party nominations.

2) We could impose quality control measures such as requiring that the winner have a certain number of supporting votes. We could also not allow unopposed candidates to win or set a higher vote minimum for unopposed nominations. If none of the nominees got enough votes, there would be no Feature in that category for that month, but those nominees would be free to run again.