Highlights of the Week Committee

Logo of the HotW Suggestions BOT & HotW Committee. This image was made by mblithium, one of the retired moderators of the Official KoGaMa Discord Server.

The Highlights of the Week Committee (abbreviated to HotW Committee) is a group of people that was created by a former KoGaMa's Community Manager, AdmiralFjong, that is responsible for finding the best creations made by the community and then forwarding them to Crispy Kirby, so he can make the HotW announcement on KoGaMa's news page on the WWW and Brazil servers.

The HotW Committee checks the creations submitted by the community and they decide which of them deserve to get highlighted in one of the upcoming Highlights of the Week, and they can indeed submit their own suggestions.

Objective

This idea's objective was to make the community able to interact in a more direct way with the KoGaMa Staff and the selection of the highlighted creations, since the community tends to be able to find a lot more of great creations than the Staff could find, and make it a lot easier to find and highlight the best creations thanks to the larger number of people involved. In this way, the Community Manager could just publish the better filtered creations (results) of the HotW Committee's discussion and get a lot more free time to invest in other things related to KoGaMa's management (since the Community Manager would not have to invest that time checking all submitted creations made by the community, but the HotW Committee would take this responsibility).

HotW Committee after AdmiralFjong's departure

When AdmiralFjong left KoGaMa, the HotW Committee was no longer as active, as there was no one to listen to the Committee's opinions on creations that could be rewarded. After a few months, a Discord Server moderator named Dede made a proposal to Michal implement a new and easier method that could be used to select creations for the upcoming Highlights of the Week. This idea was accepted and approved by him, and Dede himself joined the HotW Committee and took an active part in the development of the whole project. This is now the current system that the HotW committee uses to select great creations created by the community that deserve to be highlighted in one of these announcements, and these are then forwarded to Crispy_Kirby.

Highlights of the week Current and former committee members:

HotW Committee currently consists of a group of 12 people. All of these people manage HotW Suggestions#2988 [BOT] and help users by answering their questions related to Highlights of the Week.

It is worth mentioning the former committee members who have put a lot of work into developing the whole thing and helping other players.

Active members:

• English - @ShadowTH.
• Estonian - @Zoni321.
• French - @GoldWam-, @_Mr.e_.
• Greek - @_Gibe_.
• Hebrew - @11Net11.
• Polish - @Boxin, @jaro 3, _-PanTruskawka-_, Lukasox_, _Grumpy_.
• Portuguese - @Aleezy, @Joao.H.T, @-__-TheNoobPro44-__-, Hostia Pandora, L0rd Bruno 55.
• Russian - @karell..
• Spanish - @- HDB -.

Former members:

• Czech - @Coraxilev.
• English - @DarkMageXOfficial, @LinkkysCreations, @natecookies, @tourist vader.
• French - @ArrctiX, @Ayesha Erotica, @Juptexion, @Kweexy, @ᴳᴬᴹᴱᴿNexusᴳᴬᴹᴱᴿ, @_Kelim_.
• German - @Abaddon, @.Timur4ik..
• Polish - , @KoGaMa STEVE Minecraft, @_kuba787_, @L.R.W., @SkyChip, @SythiIe.
• Portuguese - @Alm1v, @_Fernando, @Japa_Insano, @mblither, @IINyldrenII, @Tiquim, @ToeiSanik.
• Russian - @MadmanTeery, @Vizary, @Wоrner.
• Spanish - @- i d k -, @LataDeDeseos, @MaKaKoGo, @NaKYaG, @Roenta..

HotW Suggestions#2988 [BOT]

HotW Suggestions#2988 is a Discord BOT created by Dede, which is handled by the HotW Committee to receive the community's suggestions about the creations that could get highlighted in one of the next Highlights of the Week. The best creations are forwarded to Michal, who tries to make the Highlights of the Week announcement once a week.

Tips When Using the HotW Suggestions#2988 service

1. The HotW Suggestions#2988 [BOT] must not be used to have a casual conversation. On the contrary, the bot must be used to send games, avatars, models or YouTube videos (related to KoGaMa) that you consider are worthy to be highlighted in one of the upcoming Highlights of the Week.
2. Don't submit a creation more than once. No worries! The HotW Committee checks every submitted creation and takes them into consideration, but they only choose the ones they like the most for the next Highlights of the Week.
3. The HotW Committee doesn't really have a set date and time for when they publish the Highlights of the Week results, since it depends on Michal. This happens because he has a lot of other things to do as KoGaMa's founder, so he publishes these announcements once he has gotten some free time. When Michal publishes the new Highlights of the Week's results, you should be able to see a KoGaMa news page for it on the WWW and Brazil servers, as well as an announcement on the #announcements channel of the Official KoGaMa Discord server.
4. Please be patient, it will take some time while the committee is checking and approving your creation.
5. Content made with cheats can't be considered for the Highlights of the Week.
6. Don't send links to projects; instead, send links to published games, since the HotW Committee members don't have access to your projects!
7. There are no Highlights of the Week on the Friends server, but you can send creations from the WWW and Brazil servers instead!

Trivia

• Before the HotW Committee existed, the method that was being used to submit creations to the KoGaMa Staff to get your submitted creations highlighted in one of the next Highlights of the Week was sending an email to "cm@kogama.com". The KoGaMa's Community Manager would check the submitted creations and highlight his favorites. However, this was discontinued after the appearance of the HotW Committee.

• Michal is currently taking care of listening to the HotW Committee's opinion about the creations that could get highlighted and then publishing the results in the Highlights of the Week announcement.
• The logo of the HotW Committee would later be made into a badge named HotW Committee Member, that is given to the members of the committee.

See Also

• Highlights of the Week
• KoGaMa Discord Server
• HotW Committee Member

Translations:

• Polish
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Russian