We were also curious about how users feel about implementing a rule which would give chances to more people to win. What we were thinking about is the following: to arrange things thus the winner of a category cannot be the same person from previous contests. Or he can be, as this does not mean a ban -- but he can be with more efforts. To be more precise, all previous winners could start with a coefficient of 0.8. Attention! -- this happens only regarding the previously won category!
Tbh I see no reason to make things more complicated and to introduce sort of handicap for the last year's winners for the sake of more different people winning the award each year. I say keep it as it was the previous years and let the best members win, no matter how many times before they won the award.
I understand the idea, but that would be addicting the game right from the start. Because users did not start at the same level, some would have more advantages than others. This would be the same as a football championship, starting with the previous year's winner with negative points. Something that doesn't make sense and doesn't happen.
It will be to let the vote roll and see which users stood out for the community. We will certainly have repeaters, because it's almost inevitable and eventually we'll have rookies.