Hello. It's me. Kvothealar's less cool alt account. (/s) Please don't tell Kvo that I'm two months late posting this, real life kinda got in the way for a while. The past few months have been b a n a n a s.

While I haven't been super actively interacting with the community, I have been keeping tabs and helping keep an eye on the community and there's a lot of new faces! If we haven't officially met yet, Hi!

Every year, for the past few years since the current moderator team took over, we've held an annual Community Query where we intentionally create a space to talk about the meta life of the sub. Where we've been, where we feel like we're going, and taking the pulse of the current user base so make sure we (as the Moderators) are keeping the community a place you'd like to be!

This usually entails weeks of pomp and circumstance where we announce a date, users nominate topics to discuss, we deliberate among ourselves as to which topics are pressing and which ones deserve the attention, go back and forth for a week or so, hold a vote, create the post, post top level comments and monitor all the comments in near real time, and...

Things have actually been a lot more stable. Combine that with the CQ we had back in November and we didn’t have as many topics to bring up to you guys.

So we're going to go a little less formal of a route; think of it as shorts and sunnies instead of our usual ball gowns and tuxedos.

We'd like to hear from YOU! How do you think the community is going? What do you like about it? How do you feel like we could improve? Do you have questions about why we do things a specific way or how we do things? What's something you think the community would benefit from? How do you like your eggs cooked? What if the hokey pokey is what it's all about?

As mentioned in the title, we will be giving away some of that delicious premium in the form of 12 Goldinium awards to higher-than-no-effort comments, as well has posting a few opportunities to win some more awards in some top level comments! The CQ will be open for a week total. Let's goooooo!

(P. S. - if you think one measly year of premium is a lot, be sure to stay tuned for our Sub’s anniversary, coming up next month! Who knows how much premium will be given away there‽ [The mod team actually does know 😂.])

(P. P. S. - if you’re looking for the weekly megathread, you can find it here. Had to make room for this post!)