Thanks, Aaron, this is a great suggestion! I’ll try to get around to writing a very brief post about it this weekend.
On a related note, I’d be curious to hear what you think of the idea of using EA Forum prizes for this sort of purpose? Of course, there’d have to be some more work on specifying what exactly the prize should be for, etc.
If you know who will be working on the Forum going forward, I’d love to get a sense of whether they’d be interested in doing some version of this. If so, I’d be more than happy to set up a meeting to discuss.
A competition for steering-type material seems like a reasonable contest theme (along the lines of the contests we had for creative writing and Wiki entries).
Now that I won’t be running any future events, I’m not sure what the best place to put ideas like this is. Perhaps a comment here (I imagine that future EA Forum leaders will check that thread when thinking about contests).
I’ve also added your idea to the document I’ll send our next Content Specialist, but that’s a really long document, so having the idea in more places seems good!
(Finally, when the next specialist is chosen, they’ll probably introduce themselves on the Forum, so you could set a reminder to contact them directly with this idea later on!)
Thanks, Aaron, this is a great suggestion! I’ll try to get around to writing a very brief post about it this weekend.
On a related note, I’d be curious to hear what you think of the idea of using EA Forum prizes for this sort of purpose? Of course, there’d have to be some more work on specifying what exactly the prize should be for, etc.
If you know who will be working on the Forum going forward, I’d love to get a sense of whether they’d be interested in doing some version of this. If so, I’d be more than happy to set up a meeting to discuss.
A competition for steering-type material seems like a reasonable contest theme (along the lines of the contests we had for creative writing and Wiki entries).
Now that I won’t be running any future events, I’m not sure what the best place to put ideas like this is. Perhaps a comment here (I imagine that future EA Forum leaders will check that thread when thinking about contests).
I’ve also added your idea to the document I’ll send our next Content Specialist, but that’s a really long document, so having the idea in more places seems good!
(Finally, when the next specialist is chosen, they’ll probably introduce themselves on the Forum, so you could set a reminder to contact them directly with this idea later on!)
Sounds good! I’ll post a comment and make sure to reach out to the next content specialist. Thanks!