Cheikh,
I could not agree more. The contribution of veterans over the years has been indispensable to so many of us when it comes to learning ArchiCAD (I happen to be writing a blog post about how to learn ArchiCAD right now and your thread is very timely!).
Back in 2012 I wrote about my personal ArchiCAD heroes, and it was awesome to see all the comments from other users sharing which users were inspiring to them. You can check out that post and the comments here: (
http://www.shoegnome.com/2012/08/06/archicad-heroesv1/)
It was particularly cool to see the responses from those greats, as they often talked about the users who inspired them.
As for official recognition, that'd be cool too. But so you know, it has been happening for years behind the scenes in a variety of ways. Often big helpers here get connected deeper and deeper into GS in a variety of ways (I met a lot of the big commenters in Budapest at the KCC this year). And some of the veterans from years ago have since gone on to work at Graphisoft.
Over the past year, has there been two or three users that you are particularly grateful for? As someone who does what he can to help the community, getting a thanks from GS is nice, but hearing directly from other users is the best.