Home page?
My bookmark goes to subscriptions, so I can't even recall what the Home page looks like. I understand why the
contests aren't more prominent on the site. Keep the focus on the
mission!
Like Jon, I didn't know about the
contests until I noticed the link in someone's signature. For those of us that want to help promote the
contests, do as Jon and I did, put a link in your signature.
I'm very glad to see there's a warm and fuzzy feeling in here now. Giga made a couple good points. For those of us that don't nominate someone, it's pretty much the same result, right? Maybe. In the old process, we could see who has already been nominated, and therefore not need to nominate someone ourselves. It seems the real question is, would we have had a different list of nominees this month if we had used the old process? We can never say for certain, but my suspicion is yes.
What this change has really done is change the intent of the contest. Instead of a contest to reward the member most valuable to the other members, we now have a contest to reward the member that best represents management's vision of what makes a valuable member. There is nothing wrong with this at all IMHO.
We still have
contests where members can reward other members for their efforts, ie Nug of the Month and Plant of the Month. The MoM contest had been a best or most helpful grower of the month contest. Look at the MoY candidate list. All are growers. I understand why management made this change, and I can't fault them for wanting to reward members supporting the site
mission in ways other than growing.
What if we just split the contest? Member of the Month and Grower of the Month. Keep the MoM contest the way it is with the new format, and make the new one like the old format.
Hiking on...