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 don’t have anything against automated leaderboards, but I don’t like peer-voted “user of the month”. 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, I’d say it’s even worse. Most are not active on meta, and do great job. It would be the same as “user of the month”, but ignoring most of their activity outside the public forum.
So the votes would be restricted to “staff of the month active on meta”.
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.
