Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4060139-20140101113230/@comment-4060139-20140103003522

When I counted the votes for the past few cycles, I only counted posts that had the or  (or their strong/weak variants) icons in them. I did take note of posts that sort of implied support for an article or image, but didn't have the template in them. In all cases, those votes didn't make a difference in the outcome. And as for Kudos, I didn't take them into account at all.

Should we count Kudos as support? Three people gave Animated's image kudos, but only one of them went on to post about it. I remember suggesting this during the first voting period, since they seem to be easier to track, but someone brought up a good counter-point: that they're also a bit harder to enforce, since you can't (to my knowledge) forcibly remove a "kudo" and you'd have to check every image's kudo count to make sure no one had a combined kudo and comment support count over 2.