Editors are by far MetaBrainz’ biggest and most irreplaceable resource.
They (you) spend countless hours entering data for free, be it for the love of music, to tidy their own collections and listen histories, to support their scenes, to archive historical and cultural data, to apply the cool and soothing editing brain-balm, or a combination of all of the above and more.
Some of the top editors have provided the backbone of MusicBrainz for years, decades, and often perform the more tedious data maintenance and checking tasks.
A few summits ago, the question was asked – can we give these editors, say those with 1 million+ edits, some recognition without getting into the quagmire of things like gamifying?
Enter super special (lousy) shirt plan.
Super special shirt plan is simple, we ask editors with over a million edits if they would like a lousy shirt (or their choice of shirts from our merch store), and if they say yes, we send them a lousy shirt!
The plan was to accompany the shirts with an optional questionnaire/interview, so we could showcase some of our top editors and their editing tips and tricks. Reo said, on this topic: “I think many top editors don’t get to top editorship by virtue of being very social”. Turns out he may have had a point.
Social or not, we appreciate all of you immensely. Thank you.
1,000 and 100,000 edit versions of this shirt are available in the store for anyone with the required edit count (honor system!) to purchase. The 1 million edit version is exclusive to super special shirt plan.*
If you have other ideas for how we could show appreciation to editors and voters (ideally within budget and without having to code and maintain complex new systems…) or want to shout out someone doing a great job, please comment below. If you have 1 million edits and did not receive your shirt email, please contact a staff member (we are available via ChatBrainz).
*please don’t abuse the system to increase your edit count. It’s not worth it for a lousy shirt that your friends and family won’t understand.
**in case it gets lost – super special shirt plan doc can be accessed here (MeB staff access only, sorry)