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>>Hi George. I would vote that you should receive a free PUTM for all the help you provide here. MVP or not :)
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>>Have a great weekend.
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>>Later
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>The observation you made about being an MVP or not looks really interesting.
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>By the way I second what you said. George should have a free PUTM.
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>Can someone be an MVP but did'nt receive it because of his involvment on the UT. So this MVP gets a free PUTM but does'nt really deserve it because the help is never really done here.
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>But somebody else does'nt have an MVP but helps a lot on the UT. And those are the individuals that really deserve to have a free PUTM.
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>So I guess there could be a mixture of both. Free PUTM for MVPs and free PUTM for top helpers that are not MVPs. The second category could be determined on a percentage of all the help given on the precedent year. And then a survey of the UT users could help decide who should get a free PUTM after managers of the UT nominate certain helpers.

Denis,

I think that this is what Michel was trying to accomplish with the "stars". Unfortunately, it was abused, and because of this, the possibility of someone getting a free PUTM was removed.

Do I think it would be a good business decision for Michel to reward UT contributors for what they do here? Yes, I do. There are a number of folks (including yourself and Jos) that I would support as deserving.

Perhaps, rather than a "Personality of the Year" vote, Michel could do a "Contributors of the Year", allowing UT membership to nominate and vote. Michel, could then select the top "n" members (where "n" is a number he could determine) and reward them with a PUTM. The criteria should simply be based on whom the membership thought was deserving.

This way, he could remove the entire "MVP" issue. Now, speaking for myself, I got my MVP for my contributions here and no where else. If the membership, however, didn't think I was deserving, then so be it.