User blog comment:Mak23686/News about the featured articles/@comment-1876796-20110723125058/@comment-1874176-20110723215930

@Slick 3 months and 2 weeks, to be exact; from 10th of August to 26th of November 2010.

Before that, Freddie was featured from the 21st of April to the 10th of August (3 months and 2 weeks, too).

Before that, Sam was featured from 14th of February (first time EVER a character was featured) to the 21st of April (2 months 1 week)

Since then, we had:

Sam

T-Bo

Freddie

Spencer

Gibby's grandfather

Sam

Freddie

Sam

Freddie (going to be in August)

Add that up, you get:

Freddie: 6 months 2 weeks

Sam: 5 months 1 week

Carly: 3 months 2 weeks

So, Carly indeed IS behind in being featured (although not quite as badly as people made it seem, I admit), but especially if you look at the last four months (Sam - Freddie - Sam - Freddie), you can clearly see a pattern; with the Seddie arc and Seddie shippers being overly shipping-active, its quite likely this will continue.

BEFORE the voting started, Sam was actually behind with Carly and Freddie being even, but now that the voting has been going on for some time,. it has evened out (Freddie has 2 months more than Sam), so your argument of "Carly has been featured for a long time before the voting started " doesn't work any more.

Now, it seems like Sam and Freddie will keep being featured, causing Carly to be left out. Additionally, she was suggested to be featured EVERY month, and people rather chose T-Bo or Gibby's grandfather (who are quite minor characters) than her.