Walter van Kalken wrote:
Please read my earlier answer to Jimbo Sannse and there
you will see
that I did admit to saying those things, but that I never did it. Also
if things go wrong in the foundation and no-one reacts at first were do
you go then? Please answer that? I didn't have the three years that
discussions usually take. I feel it is a shamefull thing that people do
not take comments seriously untill they make the ultimate threat.
Basically someone is ignored and not being heard untill he says the
ultimate thing. It is extremely bad that this happened and everyone
ignored things and let this happen. It is actually still happening
because RonaldB is still ignoring all questions!
The point here is that a threat to use one's greater powers (such as
stewardship) can be every bit as disruptive as actually using them...
perhaps even more so because of the air of uncertainty that it creates.
Kids can react negatively when a parent says, "You have to do this
because I said so."
The foundation could learn a thing or two from this.
One of them being
that complaints should be taken more seriously at an earlier stage,
especially if they have been uttered by an active member and not just by
him. Ignoring complaints and sticking your head in the sand only leads
to escalation, problems do not get solved by being ignored, people get
extremely pissed especially with the ignoring of a time-sensitive
subject. Although many people have told me that ignoring is the right
way to solve a problem (or should I say "challenge" for the political
correct ones out there) in the foundation, basically all people adhering
to that school of thought are damaging the situation and are damaging
the foundation. Because a next time it won't just blow over and fade
away like it has now.
Welcome to the real world! My own experience is that I know I've
espressed a good idea by how much it's ignored. I need to apologize
profusely to all those others who have had good ideas which I have
ignored. I still have many of those ideas from two and three years ago
in my in box, and try to maintain the vain hope that someday I will
answer them. Good ideas require quiet reflection before a valid
response orconstructive criticism can be sent back, and if I may lament
on this myself we are ever more acclimatized as a society to
instantaneous response and gratification. It leads to an insidious
proliferation of rules designed to provide quick fixes for all our
problems, because the number of them that we feel compelled to solve
seems overwhelming.
Ignoring a problem out of a mistaken devotion to political correctsness
does _not_ solve any problems; it makes one a part of the problem.
Maybe we should have a SlowWiki ... even though that may be an oxymoron.
Ec