Voting:Level 5's and Up/Removing Yearly Rewards - Not Passed

When someone turns a year old (in wiki years), the user is given a character spot for sticking around. As years progress, they get another one each year. I'm proposing we get rid of this reward for a few key reasons.

First, it nullifies the gain when entering contests. Recently we have had a good turn out when it comes to contests, but I remember before it was a struggle for people to apply. A good incentive was the possibility to gain an extra character spot. By eliminating this years gift, we make these character spots scarcer to come by and increase interest in writing contests. Someone may say that most people are able to attain character mainly through adopting newbs, but that's something I hope to fix with another vote to do with adopt a newb reformation.

Second, the amount of character spots we already have is insane. Just by taking out the minor character aspect from the equation, users seem to accumulate spots overtime, resulting with people having between 20 and 30 spots. I myself have about 15, which is no meager number either, and it would be pretty hard and take a lot of skill for someone to both have a lot of characters and keep them all active and rping. What is the value in having a character if there is no use to them.

Third, it has become a headache and hassle for the HR department to handle. I think it was sometime between last year and this year that we as department took on the daunting challenge of giving every user all their due spots, and it has been something we haven't received IM's or anything about (as in, no one seemed to particularly care about have the reward itself). As a collective we already have other tasks to take on such as updating the user char page, updating this voting forum area, working on categories, deleting what needs to be deleted, and other grunt and unfun work XD This itself seems like a waste of time and effort, although I speak for myself and not the department in this respect.

I hope these are sufficient enough points to make you vote in favor of removal.