Chess Community Awards Recipients

Two brave souls have received shru medallions of honorary respect on this nice may evening.

Why you may be wondering? Recently an appreciation forum was put out where you can vote for three people, and the top three at the end of the month would get titles decided by the community. Nice. 

so who are these three people. Well here they are, and why they were appreciated so much.

@Smiley_face10 6 votes

smiley is a very cool person. I’ve seen them spend long amounts of time analyzing people’s games on their ‘post your games’ thread with complete strangers, and they have a hot takes thread that with smileys warm personality, reached 9000 comments with ease. Smiley has always been a great person and really livens the places on this site they are on, and it’s no doubt they received tied for second amount of votes, and I personally voted for them.

@CheeseBlackBelt 6 votes

originally named Nonotrocosto2011, I originally met him on a ‘got games?’ Thread, and immediately seemed like an amazing person. He sent me a daily match, but I’m not sure if I’ve even beat nonotro before, but he have really helped me and I can only imagine many others improve in chess. I have seen him on many a forum, and I’ve always been impressed by how well his English is despite it not being his first language. The six people that voted for him definitely knew what they were doing.

@shru 8 votes (by the way thanks to @Octopus_d6 for writing this part for me so I don’t seem like a self centred person making a forum bragging about myself)

Whether a question on a move or in understanding a tactic, shru has always graciously offered his time to everyone, not just me. More importantly, he is internally honest even when we don't agree (which is rare). I also think his games are brilliant and I respect him a great deal. :-)

Anyway now for the title part

Each of these people won the chess community award and can say they did wherever they want. Congrats.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/chess-community-awards#comment-128767288 
the original thread ^

Woohoo !

NPC (Noblest Person in the Community) this smiley for it I like it a lot

MVP (Most Valuable Poster)

Community Carry (for Chess Com, my friend Chat came up with it)

for shru probably

I dont want to take part in the votes for myself 🙃

In my opinion, this vote thing and your forum reached far too less people to be a universal vote. Therefore we must agree that it’s a unofficial title.

And therefore I would call it something like the "CCA-Winner". CCA stands for "Chess Community Awards" (Your voting-thread name) of course.

This would avoid any confusions and even more important, encourages other people to make such threads like yours as well since there is no indicatior that that’s just a one-time title.

If others want to make a thread like yours to spread appreciation, that must be a good thing, right?

It’s not about THE most appreciated user of chees.com since that is simply impossible to measure without hundreds or thousands of voters. It’s about spreading long term positivity and appreciation in general.

Having that said, a monthly community title of this might also be worth considering to keep the above mentioned positivity and appreciation a permanent thing. Additionally, this would give other great members the chance to earn this title as well.

That’s actually very true! 
EDIT: I changed it!

YESSSSSSS

@shru What exactly did you change?

Instead of deciding unique titles each time they each just get the chess community awards

Oh, alright! 👍