Fun fact: the first 10 years I was in the VHL the only job I ever held was grader or updater. Go check my builder article if you don’t believe me. Had to basically make up a bunch of extra non-jobs to pad it when I was literally campaigning myself to get inducted as a builder. Why do I bring this up? Because I never felt like I was less a part of the community because my name didn’t have a fancy colour and I didn’t make decisions.
I recognize times change and the league is bigger now so maybe finding your place in the community seems harder, I’m not sure. I just know that this prevailing mindset that you need to be in some kind of position of power to be taken seriously or get anything done is getting out of hand. You wanna make the VHL a better place? Go do it! I used to build skins for the place and get maybe 1 PT out of weeks of work. @boubabi made piles of logos for us and got paid I think a doubles week or something? If you enjoy the league then by all means put the time in, I promise you that we notice. @Sonnet wasn’t handed a BOG job because we pulled his name out of a hat. Neither was @GustavMattias, or @Enorama, or @Rayzor_7, or anyone else. You earn the respect and the positions eventually by showing activity and enjoyment in the league and wanting to better it. Sometimes that involves pay, sometimes it doesn’t. Hell, BoG has never been a paid position and never should be.
You wanna make the league a better place? Great, go make it a better place. You don’t need a colourful name or a fancy title to do it.