Appreciation: Those Underrated Listeners

Hey there - thanks for reading this post :P I wanted to talk about something today and also invite you guys to appreciate those underrated listeners.

When I say Underrated Listeners, I'm not referring to those who only have 4 stars or 4.5 or whatever, that's not what I'm getting at.

What I'm getting at are those people who stretch their timetables to fit in 7 cups, to take up projects and roles to give back to this wonderful community, those people who welcome, appreciate, lead discussions, moderate forums, mentor listeners, lead mentors, take up huge roles, balance their time, self-care, listen to people on 7 cups, and more.

Those underrated listeners who don't get appreciated enough. You know these people from the top of your head - perhaps they're someone who has helped you write a forum discussion. Or perhaps you missed a discussion that you had to lead and the support team leader was understanding and helped you make amends and reschedule. Or perhaps your intern buddy reminded you to fill in the weekly evaluation form as you forgot last week's. Or, perhaps, you just completed a training and the person who lead the training was very helpful. Or maybe, someone appreciated and welcomed you today and it made your day. Or even, someone who's always helping people out in TL and LSR, or a moderator who always fixes things in the most resilient way.

Whether it's someone matching any of the above criteria, you know that these people help the community in various ways and they're so, so underrated and need a pack on the back (and perhaps a smore or a cookie), so let's appreciate these underrated listeners, yeah?

Let me start with a few!

@Erato - For always having the answer to things, helping out with TL, answering questions about internship, answering questions from me about the mentor stuff D: xD <3 being wonderfully welcoming, supplying unlimited supply of pizza, always having something nice to say, helping out with many subcommunities and projects, being an amazingly resilient and funny, yet completely human wonderful girl :3

@Cherm - Being such a great DS Feed Team member, replying within 12 hours, always there to help and actively participate, being a hugely great role model in around the world subcommunity, being super active, reaching milestones, openly supporting members in group support and 1-1 chats, starting up and working on projects early on, taking the initiative to learn, and also reaching the milestone of AL1+2 passing really early on, hooray!

@Hope - Always there to answer questions in LSR (and has the answer to like, everything :P), making the nickname 'Mashmy' for me xD, helping out with internship really actively, always giving me mentoring, reaching loads of milestones, being able to have an.. interest in business, watching out for me to make sure I don't burn out, and being really funny and professional at the same time.

I encourage you to shoutout to people too!