So a while ago, there was something called the Fanspo newsletter, or something close to that. My idea is each week, a user makes a post, recapping the week. The post would include trending posts and challenges, exciting events, and whatever else the post-maker wants to do.
The most popular part of the weekly post, would probably be the user of the week poll. Users are nominated (2 nominations per user), and the user with the most nominations after a week is the official user of the week! Building off of that, on the last day of the month, the month recap is posted, which is basically the weekly recap, but on a larger scale. And you guessed it, the user of the month. To qualify for user of the month, you must be one of the past 6 users of the week. Here are a couple rules I thought of:
You may not win the user of the week more than 5 times in a row
You may not win the user of the week more than 1 time in a row
Both of these rules are to make sure, one, there are at least 2 users on the ballot for user of the month, and two, the person creating the recap can change monthly. I'm going to explain that part now.
I'm planning to start the recaps this week, if the community thinks it's a good idea. I will take each week during March and the overall March recap. But, after that, the user of the month from the previous month takes over. This is basically to avoid someone gaining criminal amounts of GM Score.
My overall goals for this whole idea are
Users who were less active can figure out what they missed and what is available to join
More users are more active, hoping to earn themselves a user of the week, or even a user of the month
Posts and challenges created by smaller users are shown to the whole community
FUN!
So let me know what you guys think. Please give brutal feedback because I really want this idea to work out. We will see how it works on March 8th!