Quoting Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com:
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Second, I think that if you guys, for whatever reasons, decide that one board member you elected is really really really wrong, you have the power to make his life a misery. You really do :-) And do not forget that board members are volunteers. Without financial compensation, what they get as benefit is mostly
- the warm feeling that they are doing the right thing,
- the public recognition ?
- "business" connexions ?
Well, you have the power to work on any of these three points if you really want to :-) For example, if 500 people start harassing me publicly and says "she is so stupid, it is a disaster we have such a bad person on the board", I will not try to stick to the job. I'll resign, no hassle. If only 1 person complains, why should I care ? If 50 people complain, it is certainly worth listening.
I would hope given that we all have the same goals and our part of the Wikiprojects overcommunity(metacommunity? What's the right here?) that expressions of displeasure would come in a more civil and productive form.