It's really, really obvious that picking Featured Contributors isn't going well. Unfortunately, when I do get time to work on this site, I often have to work on performance improvements and bug fixes -- not the kinds of community-building efforts that I'd like. I do plan on adding in some functionality to allow moderators to add Featured Contributors (among other things), but that's a long way off.

So what I'd like to do, for at least the short term, is take submissions from the users. Not just "So and so should really be Featured Contributor, la!", but full writeups of Featured Contribs. I'll take the ones I like, queue them up, and then we'll have a proper feature. So if you're interested, please pick someone you think is worthy (not yourself :-)), write up a "review" of them in the same style as the Featured Contributor above, and use the contact form to send them to me. You'll of course get credit for the writeup.

Any questions, please post them in the comments here. Thanks!