It’s a fair question.
I’ll say what I already said, that it’s worth keeping the history in context, because that explains why things are the way they are today.
Rewind to the God forsaken year of 2005 after WoW was released in the EU.
Some of the first MVPs Blizzard picked on the EU-EN forums were the likes of Shammoz and Celeby and so on. They were Customer Support oriented people, and their forum contribution was completely in line with how TheHelper had acted as an MVP on the old battle.net forums.
Don’t fix something that isn’t broken, right?
But because the forums acted as everyone’s main source of WoW information at the time – because the fansites weren’t very developed – Blizzard also made some people MVPs who were more community oriented.
I recall Adnaw who received her MVP title because she created a lot of guides on how to get started with roleplay and how to set up roleplaying events and so on. So she got the MVP title to highlight the work she did on the Roleplaying forum.
That totally made sense, because for many people the whole concept of MMORPGs and Roleplaying was completely new to them. Awesome to have a source of expert knowledge and information in the area!
There was also a Dwarf who’s name I’ve forgotten, but he basically posted a weekly news post on the forum every week.
Again, this was at a time when mmo-champion, wowhead, and so on, weren’t really around. People did actually go to the forums for news updates about the game, and this Dwarf dude supplied all of that. And Blizzard credited his work by giving him an MVP title. Again, it made sense!
That’s the origin of what’s known as Community MVPs today. Guides, FAQs, News Updates, Wiki info, Questions & Answers, etc…
And if you compare that to today, then the community sphere has changed a lot.
The fansites like mmo-champion, wowhead, and icyveins, they’re huge now. They’ve become the go-to source of news updates, guides, and so on, for most people.
And because the forums were stuck with an old architecture for a long time that didn’t really let players create amazing guides or news posts or anything else that compared to the fansite content, then the forums shifted more toward being a place where people mainly discussed and commented on various WoW topics, and less of a place where people went for news and information.
And that puts the MVP Program in a weird spot, because it hasn’t really evolved together with the rest of the forum community. Like, it was meant to highlight something on the forums which isn’t really what the forums are about anymore.
So that obviously brings up the question of what the MVP Program and MVPs are about!
Like, if an MVP is just a person who’s constructive and active on the forums, then why aren’t more people MVPs? I mean, surely lots of people fulfill that criteria.
And if the forums are mainly a source of discussion and commentary, then what are you actually trying to highlight when you make someone an MVP in that field?
And it’s not just a WoW thing. It’s worth pointing out that the MVP Program is a Blizzard community program and it extends to the other game franchises as well.
And it’s the same issue there.
I raged about it on the Diablo forums some weeks ago. When Diablo III was released Blizzard wanted to have a group of Diablo MVPs, so they nominated people who were experts on each of the class sub-forums – again to highlight all the guide writing, questions & answers, wiki info, and so on, which these people were doing. Good stuff!
Then over the years these Diablo MVPs stopped playing Diablo and stopped posting on the forums. Blizzard of course did nothing.
Then at Blizzcon there was the Diablo Immortal announcement, and suddenly they all came out of the woodwork like everyone else to criticize and complain. And they were still MVPs. Like what the hell? They’re people who haven’t played the game or posted on the forums for 1-2 years and they’re still MVPs!? And it’s not to criticize them, but it speaks volumes about how little care and attention Blizzard give to their own MVP Program when they seem oblivious to the fact that their MVPs have gone completely inactive for years!
And it’s the same on the WoW forums. Punyelf is amazing, but she’s also the first MVP in 3½ years I believe. That’s insane. If there’s only a new MVP nominated every 3½ years, then that MVP Program may as well not exist.
And the reason why more people aren’t nominated isn’t because there aren’t lots of great posters, but because Blizzard only wants a fixed amount of MVPs. It used to be 4 on the WoW forums, then it grew to 6 when I became MVP, and then later it was 10, and I’ve no idea how many it is today. But that’s always been the way of things. New MVPs are only selected when old ones retire, unless Blizzard decides to increase the overall amount.
But because many MVPs hold onto their titles forever and ever since there’s no motivation to relinquish it, and Blizzard don’t want to forcefully take it from anyone, then that means no new MVPs are ever really picked and the whole MVP Program is just some sort of farce, because it mainly consists of a bunch of old posters that few know when or why they became MVP. They just hang around.
It lacks purpose and transparency 
She got Green text, and after that sometimes took some unfair and irrelevant flak when she posted her funny comments. It’s not easy being Green. I don’t know why she disappeared. I hope it wasn’t because of the occasional resentment she got on the forums.