LogFAQs > #911200173

There are already topics for various games on-board that say "please do not start voting until x post", normally when an opening post would go longer than the initial 1 or 2 that would go on. If time is left for merc leaders to formulate some kind of argument after terrain and rosters are finalized, I feel as if the onus is on the leaders to allow their arguments to be constructed. You are not going to prevent the 'Dante SOLOS' voters from posting Dante SOLOS if you delay them an hour; you can, however, put arguments in place at the start of a topic so that casual voters will have access to that information immediately. This only works, of course, if both parties have their arguments in before the preset time, which would likely mean more rigidity in determining when a fight topic goes up so that both players have a defined start time to prep for. Which is not always possible, of course, if one party is busy or (in a worst case scenario) deliberately stalling, something non-provable but possible to recognize as a pattern over time (and something that would, in a majority of cases, be catchable before fight topic complexity expanded out of control with full mid-tier level mercs).

When I first voted in M3, I was viewing topics under the lens of MPFC contests, asking questions like "why doesn't Kirby have access to the Warp Star when he's soul linked to it?" Just look at the Link Vs Alloy topic and how much discussion it garnered from both our established community and casual voters alike. Nice, organic debate sprouted, respect was established for Link, and some people came away with respect for the loser, which would go on to play in other topics, and there was very little there at the opening. Adding in detail work can strengthen that, bottlenecking it at the beginning may damage overall growth, like if the current Character Battle only allowed votes from registered users for the first hour.

tl;dr , I feel the onus is on the players to get an argument up before the storm, as creating restrictions on the casual voter feels elitist from an outside perspective.
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