On 6/20/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I thought it was a pretty entertaining retort.
Perhaps. Watching chimpanzees beat each other up can be pretty entertaining, too. But if we are to adopt the social standards of chimpanzees on this mailing list, I demand some free grooming.
For the record, I have not criticized the people mentioned, and if my original message came across that way, I apologize. I have a lot of respect for all of them, and have worked closely with two of them. I have questioned the notion, as have others, of having opinionated outsiders on the _governing_ board of our organization (rather than in an advisory capacity), exactly because they are opinion leaders and very knowledgeable in the fields they work in, which are highly relevant to our day-to-day work, while having no involvement, experience and visibility in our community. I have mentioned before possible alternatives from other fields. None of them are me.
The notion that I am campaigning here is absurd. There is no election, and I have about as much a chance of getting appointed as Daniel Brandt or Sollog. And what a great honor it would be to be allowed to waste away more hours for Wikimedia without pay, while receiving a litany of complaints from people who want their sock puppets checked, their admins tarred and feathered, or their crackpot theories about using orgasmic energy to run jet engines featured on the Main Page -- all the while being accused of being part of some grand shadowy conspiracy to make every single human being on the planet read a copy of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead". I've lived with a Board member for a year, I know how much fun it can be. Am I anxious, eager, enthusiastic about the idea of joining in? "No, Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most -- masochistic."
Erik