Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-3076045-20130923133743/@comment-3186827-20130926165544

PsijicThief wrote: Perhaps after this MOTM is decided upon the staff should take a month from this to evaluate what it truly means to be Member of the Month in the current state of the wikia? After all, a group or organization that doesn't change with the times (no matter how small or mundane it may seem) is a group that will lose people. It may come to a point that the name needs to be changed to something more appropriate, like Editor of the Month or Contributor of the Month. Something to think about with our forum population growing and editors that are also Skyrim-starters getting bored while they wait for ESO or the next chapter. Truly the best suggestion. If you ask me, the entire thing should be scrapped. The "award" itself is turning into something completely different and reasons for awarding it these days seem to be obscure and arbitrary (i.e. user x is funny, etc)

Secondly, people should care less about what others think about them. You don't need validation in the form of a silly award that is ultimately irrelevant. I say that if an editor OR forum poster is doing a good job, then a simple message on their talk page should suffice - without all this monthly grand prize nonsense.