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Re: LUGNET members association
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:32:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
   I think it does. If there was total trust, we wouldn’t require a policy document.


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   Not everthing I try to say is to “push” buttons, and I’m not trying to use something from a private email to beat him up with.

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   Larry, if you took my statements above as button pushing, it was not mean as such, I was returning the favor you did me when you rightfully questioned my integrity.

This has been a pretty tough situation for Larry, but so far I would give him pretty high marks for his efforts at living to a higher standard.

Thanks. For everything you said.

“I can think of a hundred things I’d rather do than debate this stuff.”

Ya, me too! I’ll see your 100 and raise you a hundred.

Larry, always the competitive one :P Levity is a good thing. and by the way, you’re welcome.

   Emotions have run high here, but your recent actions convince me I was wrong to impugne your integrity without first seeking to communicate so that we could seek to understand the issues, and I am sorry for that. Hopefully this has been a wakeup call for both of us (and for others in the community, too)... we need to increase the trust among those of us that truly care, and not let button pushers and button pushing get to us.

I’ll reiterate.

The admins want feedback and will consider it carefully. Where we’ve erred, we will work to correct it, and we will work to put processes in place to ensure that it doesn’t happen again (but trying to watch out for not becoming so mired in rules and process that we have to consult a 1243 page rules manual before we say anything!!!). But we would appreciate some patience and understanding from everyone, some communication first before jumping to conclusions, some assuming we mean the best and are doing the best we can, rather than assuming that we’re powerhungry megalomaniacs.

Is this incident “over”? No. We’ve all still got some work to do, notably to get that P&P done enough that we’re comfortable sharing it with everyone, instead of just a circle of people chosen for their differing perspectives and willingness to help out...

...because when it’s out there, and when it’s had a chance to be assimilated and put in effect, we have a really NEAT technology to start using, that will reduce the need to ask for cancels, reduce the need to send notes to people warning them, or the need to make posts suggesting that things are off topic, or the need to make posts asking people to consider rewording stuff, or the need to stress out about a bit of mild profanity... reduce all those needs by orders of magnitude.

The ToU won’t change, but we’ll have a new, (MUCH softer touch, I think) tool, to help us out, and in cases where this tool doesn’t do the trick, standardised letters to send out, to reduce the chance that personal feelings will creep in.

We’re itching to get to that state as fast as we can commesurate with taking the opinions of all into consideration and doing what’s best for LUGNET.

The above is all my opinion, it’s not official, there is still stuff to get worked through, such as getting the committee moving along at a good clip, getting the P&P completely finalised, and giving the community time to think about and comment on it. At that point we’ll be where we want to be process wise and we then hope to tackle the loose ends in the ToU. (We COULD have done the ToU first, or tried to do them both at once, but this is the order we chose to try to tackle them in)

To bring this back on topic (poor Rob, it’s not like HE’S ever hijacked anyone else’s thread!), forming a members association, in my opinion, and my opinion only, is not a thing that has to happen first before we can do those things.

XFUT to just admin.general

I’m very pleased to hear this Larry, with this we can work to go forward. I look forward to it. If the LTT and LPRV approve, I’d like unresign from the LPRV. Now that I know I’ll be heard, I won’t have to be so vocal.

Kevin



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(...) I'm happy to report that you should be back on the committee as soon as the email is reconfigured (from the LTT perspective). (which should be about 2 min after Matt reads his mail) I didn't even think to ask the rest of the LPRV how they felt (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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(...) Thanks. For everything you said. "I can think of a hundred things I'd rather do than debate this stuff." Ya, me too! I'll see your 100 and raise you a hundred. Emotions have run high here, but your recent actions convince me I was wrong to (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)

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