Any given participant could write the most excruciatingly long-winded wankery in the history of questing, everyone could unanimously vote for it, and the QM would just...write something different. If I, CanYouMeme, am putting out an extensive write-in, it's done with the full understanding that the QM will cherry-pick whatever elements of that submission they want and discard the rest. And said QM is not ipso facto wrong for doing so, so long as credit for the cherry picked parts is given in some fashion.Its a matter of etiquette, imo, because of how quests (especially narrative ones) work. They depend on voters trusting the QM's interpretation of a setting/character/whatever - the point of choices are to guide those things. Writing sprawling write-ins like you're drafting GSRP orders is a signal that, fundamentally, you don't trust the QM's direction and think they need their quest's development spelled out for them.
Because the QM is the architect, and the rest of us are the engineers and laborers who help bring it together. So arbitrary nonsense about how "word count" is in and of itself somehow an insult or not is a bit ridiculous.