Lula: Unless we put real presssure on him to relinquish control and hand over that control to the community it ain't gonna happen.
But, how does he hand it over to the "community"? Like, what steps do you propose, meeting on an aircraft carrier and having him had over an ornamental saber with the code inscribed on it, to General Haus? I'm really not trying to be a jerk, I'm making light. It's just kind of funny to imagine. But what do you envision as the steps towards transition? Who is actually involved, and how will it make things different?
I agree with other people who have said that the issues of member data and the coding getting broken are all just smokescreens for the fact that Tom just doesn't really want to give up control of the board completely. See, the thing is, yes, the member data could get lost, yes the code could get broken, but if we as a community are willing to risk that, there isn't really a reason not to hand the board over except for Tom's personal feelings about it and we always come down to that.
Why do you say it's a smokescreen? Just because Tom feels that way, right or wrong, and it's different from what you think, does it mean he's hiding the real fact that he just wants to retain utter control over something he barely is involved in? I might just be giving him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he's a control freak, I don't know, but maybe he just believes that. But ultimately, what is the control needed? Apparently it just comes down to more people being able to flush trolls, so it's not frustrating to go through the tedium of back-and-forth with someone stubbornly refusing to not chafe or fight or whatever-it-is-they're-doing (I must admit I've been very interested in the threads like that I've witnessed, but I could see how after a few times it would get really old. No one wants a bunch of buttwads cropping up, and the lack of ease in joining to prevent that thins things out too much). But, other than banning, is the only other control needed that of changing the functionality to update it? Forgive me if I'm missing something, I've actually been reading this thread, and I've read many other threads like this. I see that it is a recurring problem. I don't understand the idea of "re-inventing the societal structure" stuff. But it's very possible I'm not thinking creatively enough.
Autocracy is not really my favorite, either, but I kind of appreciate the fact that at least Tom's not over-controlling at all (though, yes, over all, controlling). |
