Still Contributing, Still Supporting the Community — But Still Questioning the MVP Decision

I read this and recognized every line of it because the same happened to me. My own answer about MVP arrived on 1 October: an automated "Declined", and nothing else.

For context,

1.I run Microsoft 365 Security Insights (thecybersec.gr) for the Greek community. Close to 50 hands-on articles since April, most of them in Greek, because almost nobody writes this material in our language.

2.I was the main speaker in two YouTube sessions, on Defender XDR and on Secure Score.

3.And this year our Microsoft Secure Score implementation, with over 90% of the controls in place, won a Gold Award at the Cyber Security Awards in Greece.

All of it shared openly, in my own time.

I don't think any of us is owed a title. But one or two sentences of feedback would tell people like us what to do differently next time, and right now we get none.

Like you, I'm not stopping, every failure is the driving force that pushes us even further forward. The people who read and show up were never there because of a badge—not that it isn't worth it.

Thank you for saying this out loud.