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[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at 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
> 1) the warm feeling that they are doing the right thing,
> 2) the public recognition ?
> 3) "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.