Every month we review activity in the Elf Community and retire elves who have not been active in the past 90 days. I am doing that this weekend. As part of this process, we also check with the Elf Supervisors about Junior Tracker Elves who can be promoted in to the North Pole Elf Community. […]
We are pleased to announce some enhancements to the Tracker Elf program in advance of the Christmas 2025 tracking season. These enhancements have been included in a recent overhaul of the SantaTrackers.net website, which you have no doubt noticed. After hours of discussion with Santa, and hearing your feedback as asked for in my last […]
Hello Elves, I have remained fairly silent for some time and part of that has been because Elf Max has been doing so much work on the site. But the bigger reason is because I have been working on a larger project: What to do about the elf community. This project we call SantaTrackers.net is […]
Santa has millions of elves. They live at the North Pole, and they live in different places all over the world. There are many kinds of elves. There are many jobs and purposes that elves have. Here at SantaTrackers.net, we are tracker elves. That’s it. That’s what we do. Sometimes, a tracker elf might get […]
As Elf Max has mentioned, we have been taking a look at Elf verification, what it means and how to get verified as an elf. Most new elves want to become verified right away. We understand that. But for verification to mean something for elves new and old, we need to explain it. This information […]
Here’s a little reminder that Membership routines continue even as Elf Max revamps the website. We are at the time of the month where we give a cleaning to our membership roles, meaning those accounts who have not logged in for 90 days get deleted. This practice, while frustrating for some elves, is necessary to […]
As a follow-up to my post about Getting Your Elf Profile Right I wanted to share some information about WHY this is important. There are a few good reasons to get this done right away: This place is crawling with elves. — Elves from North Pole Flight Command come here all the time to match […]
Fellow Elves in the Service of Santa, We’re getting busier. With new elves comes a bit of chaos. There are questions and concerns. I appreciate the help of elves who have been here in years past to help bring the new elves up to speed. As we work with new elves I’m asking ALL elves […]
The annual elf evaluation process has started. My part in this process begins today by purging our membership ranks of inactive elves. Those elves without a recorded log in during the past 90 days will be “retired”. Other elves will be retired for other reasons, most associated with behavior unbecoming an elf. There are very […]
A tracker elf conference is held every December. This has been the tradition of the past five years. Key elves from Flight Command and even Santa himself take the time to discuss tracking Santa for Santa and what is needed in that particular year. The Elf Supervisors are thinking of doing the Tracker Elf Conference […]
A few months ago I made a recommendation that all freelance elves be given a 90-day probationary period before being allowed to join the Elf Community. Since that time we have halted all registrations so that Elf Supervisors can evaluate the effectiveness of freelance elves. So far this initiative is failing. After conferring with all […]
Some have recently sent in the question “Where did Elf So-and-So go?” Well, I’ll tell ya. You don’t see them on the Elf Chat or the Elf Wall or on the Elf Map because they got busted. They didn’t leave, they got busted. They broke the only real rule we have: BE NICE. That’s just […]
