I wanted to chime in here because I’m sensing your frustration and totally get it. You worked hard on this solution and felt like your inquiry about the reward criteria and amount was ignored. It definitely wasn’t intentionally ignored. Our response monitoring here in the community is not focused on Show & Tell topics that are waiting for a response because generally those are from people using a solution and it’s on the builder to reply so we don’t have a system in place to catch all those replies. Even your direct reply to Randy is easy for him to miss because there is so much going on here in the community, and its intentionally a little like the wild west Basically, it’s a little messy here to keep up with what needs a reply. Sorry about that.
I personally do see value in your solution and I totally understand your confusion around the reward system and frustration. Your speaking up about this is prompting us to re-evaluate this and many aspects of this program. It’s not just Randy evaluating things, there are a group of us that collectively decide on this based on Randy’s initial review and input.
It could be that we didn’t understand the full intent of your solution here and we potentially misjudged its overall value to the greater community as well as others’ ability to integrate it into their own workflows. These things can be tricky to assess, but generally solutions that provide value to a broader and more diverse population, and that are easier to use/setup/understand are going to receive higher rewards even if they took much less time, thought, and energy to build. We recognize this judging criteria is a little ambiguous and arbitrary, and perhaps that’s not the best way to judge/award
We’re open to your suggestions as we continue to evaluate this program. It’s always been experimental, as are most things here in the community.
In the end we really and truly do appreciate and value your efforts and solutions. The monetary value awarded is not at all a reflection of our gratitude or the value of your solutions. We encourage builders to share not for the monetary reward, but because they want to help others or are just excited to share their work. It’s clear that some community members are finding value and appreciate your work as do we!
However, It looks like you’ve revoked the permissions for this solution. If you truly no longer want folks to be able to use your solution and you don’t want to share further solutions, we respect that and I would recommend that you remove the link to solution earlier in the post. We can also just completely take it down, but then folks who already have it won’t have any documentation, but that may be okay if you don’t intend to support it anymore.
Once again, sorry for any misunderstanding and we hope you’ll reconsider your decision to stop sharing solutions and revoking permission for this one in particular. Let us know how we can make this right for you.