I am wanting to start the MNN or Meta Monthly Newsletter a member written newsletter that comes out monthly with the latest of discourse
user of the month (voted by news team)
Staff of the month (voted by the news team)
And some on going features requests of interest
I brought this to the attention of the team asking for it to be approved and to have a designated group and category but they said first post it in General to see what the members think
If yall like this i will tell them and we will move onto news team staff interviews
I donât have anything against automated leaderboards, but I donât like peer-voted âuser of the monthâ. They are often no more than a popularity contest and an ego stroke for an already standing-out user while overshadowing other valuable contributors.
As for staff of the month, Iâd say itâs even worse. Most are not active on meta, and do great job. It would be the same as âuser of the monthâ, but ignoring most of their activity outside the public forum.
So the votes would be restricted to âstaff of the month active on metaâ.
Having been both staff and very active on meta at the same time, if such a vote happened at the time, I sure would have disliked it.