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Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
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Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:08:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jason S. Mantor wrote:
> You mentioned the efficiency of a tiered review process as a reason for
> not making everything about lugnet administration public.  I don't buy
> that.

No personal offense intended - have you ever run a large community forum, or
managed people?  There is a big difference in how people think things should be
run when they have actually had to run things.

> I submit that efficency is irrelavent to the problem at hand and I
> beleive that recent events clearly demonstrate that the efficiency of
> the current way of doing things (Tiered review?) is pitiful at best : (

I think that the LPRV Committee could have been wonderfully productive.  My
personal hopes for it was that it would be the beginning of incorporating
non-Admin opinions into the decisions that are made.  That is, the opening up
the Administration.

The failure of the LPRV, IMHO, wasn't the process it was using.

>   David E. brought up that fact that lugnet worked very well under
> Todd's light touch in the past.  There were no tiers, no committees, no
> heavy-handedness, and no secrets.  I wish we could return to that, but
> the next best thing is probably "peer review." or transparency.

The past is always so much better than the way things are now.  A lot of people
have been calling for Lugnet to modernize and update how things are run.  I
think that Lugnet cannot be run by a single person with a totally hands-off way
of doing things.  If for no other reason, it creates a single point of failure.

And Todd had lots of secrets.  We don't know about them because they were inside
his head.  When you have a group of people the idea of what is 'secret' changes.
It becomes a group agreement to not discuss things beyond the group - and
whether you like that idea or not, privacy and secrecy will always be important
to the administration of anything (from the USA gov't to Community Forums).

-Lenny



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  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) I too had high hopes for the LPRC. Has it officially failed? (...) Well I guess there's several viewpoints on those reasons too, but I would be interested in what (in your opinion) caused it to fail. ROSCO (21 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) I have managed several quick-serve restauarant businesses, in one of which I had responsibility over more than 50 employees. I also managed 2 college dormitory floors, one with over 100 residents, both with residents from around the world. A (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
No offense taken, Lenny. My day job for the last seven years has been "administering" an e-commerce web site that encompasses several hundred different organizations and handles anywhere from 5 to 7 billion US dollars in transactions each year. I (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
You mentioned the efficiency of a tiered review process as a reason for not making everything about lugnet administration public. I don't buy that. I submit that efficency is irrelavent to the problem at hand and I beleive that recent events clearly (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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