On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Casey Brownlists@caseybrown.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think that fits the definition of "sell", others may disagree but it is semantics and is unimportant.
Is it unimportant? We're discussing how this action is perceived as having bought a seat, so I'd say that that semantics and interpretations definitely are important here.
Is any of it?
It doesn't appear that anyone outside of troll-l^wfoundation-l cares. Even over at Wikipedia review the response has been more along the lines of "Wow, they suckered Omidyar!".
Much of the discussion here seems to be a concern that someone platonic community member will be outraged, not that the participants themselves are more than mildly disappointed. When ENWP changes their site notice to direct readers to a wikinews smear piece about the board selling a seat— then we can worry. Until then, this seems like a lot of pointless lip-flapping.
Cheers.