User-submitted deck spotlights

I can't disagree that this would be great, but there are a few moving pieces that makes this harder to do which is why I like us simply spotlighting community-made decks on the homepage and news feed instead, as Sinti pointed out. 

The big one is communication. It can already be difficult to connect with the folks on the team due to timezones, it becomes much harder with potentially new people every week, using private messages and hopes that they respond. The amount of outreach to make it happen might be wasted time that could be better spent elsewhere. By keeping these big spotlights on the team, we have better control over what goes out and when it goes out. Also, this is all going to lead to something else in the near future which isn't going to be as open as creating a deck and writing a guide is; We're just getting things started.

While communication is the big one, we've also got stupid laws. Although our site terms and conditions make it quite clear that people are only allowed to post content they create on the site (not copy-pasting other people's stuff), that doesn't mean it isn't going to happen and it can be hard to vet this kind of stuff. If we link a deck in a round-up that includes content the user didn't make, so what? We'll delete the offending content and have someone else write a bit on it.  If we make a whole news article out of it though, that article gets to vanish. There's a certain level of trust we have with people on the team, after all, they are bound by very different legal terms than anyone that just creates an account on the site, which makes needing a proper vetting process less required. Back to the terms and conditions though, we do have the authority to modify and reproduce content everyone creates on here. If we wanted to copy someone's deck guide and post it as a news article, we'd be more than entitled to doing so and no one could do anything about it if they no longer wanted it on the site. Realistically, I don't even see anything coming down to that, but it would be a bit of a dick move though so I really don't want to touch it.

I'm glad people are enjoying the longer-form content though and I hope that it encourages people to write some of it themselves. We don't have enough people writing good guides outside of the staff so if we can get to the point where that is more common, it would be fantastic.

I do want to open up our revenue sharing program to select deck creators in the future though, along with ownership related stuff so people can't just go on a blast and wipeout everything they've created on the site, so if that's something people are interested in, create some top-quality content to start building a portfolio to show us you know your stuff on a game knowledge side and on the other side of content formatting. I can't give you any specifics on it because it isn't something I'm ready to talk about yet (I'm still going through content creator applications from our last recruitment drive, it sucks being the head for everything at times :P) but when the time comes, we'll definitely make some kind of announcement and make it very clear what kind of criteria we're looking for.