The excuses of "tag bloat" and "matchability" were such claptrap. If server strain really was a problem they needed to make arrangements to upgrade their servers, not kick the can further down the road for when it became an even bigger problem. But I doubt it was truly a server strain problem either. Someone behind the scenes must have wanted to exert some sort of control over proceedings, although why I don't know. Word of God at the time was that the two-nominators rule was a "compromise" between old mods and new and that the old mods apparently wanted fandoms and characters to not be eligible unless more than two people nominated them. But why would they want three or five or ten people to nominate something before it became eligible? Fuck knows what the old mods' endgame was.