[Foundation-l] Contact in Thailand - @Jimbo

[Walter van Kalken]

sannse wrote:

>Johan Bos wrote:
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>>Dear Jimbo,
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>>You should know one thing. I am a native Dutch speaker, so I could perfectly 
>>follow all the communication around the troubles with Waerth. I also read 
>>some of the communications towards you and I concluded that you have been 
>>misinformed a bit. The internation messages which I read did totally not 
>>represent the matter in a righteous way. Let me state one thing quite clear:
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>>¡Waerth would never have abused his stewardship or his being a press 
>>contact!
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>"Would not"? or "did not threaten to"?  Because if you just mean the 
>first, then I'm afraid I have to say the actions taken in removing 
>Waerth as steward and press contact were 100% correct.
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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 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.

Waerth/Walter