It's really nice to see how much our community appreciates the effort that the ones from them spend their time helping them enjoying OSM....
When this topic was created I (yes, I saw it since day 1) allowed it to stay open, because I wanted to have an idea how community feels about it, but looking back now, I think that it should have been shut down from start.
I'm gonna do it now, but before I'm going to provide some info!
As you all know, OSM is split in several communities (14 if we include the English/International one). Every community has it's own Support team, managed by volunteers. Those volunteers, help OSM providing support to our users on their native language and also on keep community active by organizing competitions, forum activities... etc.
It's not manadatory that they do all this. Every community may decide on what to do based on the feedback they get from community and on the availability they have to coordinate those events.
Prize events, need permission from Gamebasics. For those prize events, Community Managers have to present the whole draft of the event aswel as the 'royalties' they are requesting (free leagues, BC prizes). Those events have to meet some criteria, if they don't meet the criteria, they are rejected.
Instead of complaint about everything, undermine the work that Support members do to provide you guys the best OSM experience possible, why don't you join them and try to help them? After being there and know how much work is needed and how mentality strong these support members have to be to listen these non-sense comments after spend several hours 'working' for them.... After all that, then you'll be entitled to criticise, because you've proven that you're able to do it better, but I'm pretty sure that after go through all this, you'll never think on criticise their work again!
This being said, have fun, help your community support members (and all other teams) and make their life easier!
