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Skriven 2006-12-20 22:54:32 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
  Kommentar till text 44293 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
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Hello Ward.

21 Dec 06 03:11, you wrote to Ross Cassell:

 WD> Ross,

 >> You are no longer the right person for the job as Fidonews editor,
 >> and there are a few people I have heard from that are in your own
 >> zone who agree.

 WD> The two worst people ever to be editor of Fidonews, that is my private
 WD> opinion of course just as the above statement is your private opinion
 WD> (and we all know that private opinions are not defined as "fact"),
 WD> were Mark Hernandez a.k.a. Zorch Frezberg and Henk Wolsink.

 WD> I cannot recall that there was very much oposition against these two
 WD> while they did piss poor jobs. Actually, they did no job at all.

     The differance here Ward is that Bjorn is the catalyst that makes
makes people dislike him to the degree that they do. He seems to go out
of his way to make people dislike him. Then says that if they don't like
it, tough. That isn't what this echo needs in a moderator.


 WD> The campaign against Bjorn Felten has got nothing to do with his
 WD> qualities as moderator ...


     IMHO the dislike of Bjorn has more to do with him as moderator than
anything else. This echo is a zoo. Bjorn doesn't seem to want to be bothered
with moderating here. In fact he has shifted his responsibilities to moderate
over to the users. Looking at the condition of this echo he appears to be
non-existant. The concept of self-moderation clearly isn't working. At least
here. Partly thanks to the moderator himself. It's hard for people to try
to control themselves and each other when the moderator is entertaining himself
by stirring the pot.


 WD> it's a vendetta, no more no less, and it
 WD> all started when he did not lose a certain moderator-election which he
 WD> was supposed to lose.


     I have no vendetta towards Bjorn. My opinion of him is based on what
he has done and said. I would much rather work with with him as opposed to
against him. He has made it clear that he has no interest in that. He IMO
would much rather do nothing HIS way. Regardless of the chaos that results.


 WD> My opinion only of course.

 WD> Historically, brief as Fido-history may be, the moderator/editor
 WD> always appointed his successor with only one sad exception (as far as
 WD> I can remember). Therefor the moderator/editor-status of Bjorn will
 WD> only change when he himself decides so ... or when he dies
 WD> prematurely.

     That may be true. But also paints a sad picture for the future of the
Fidonews and this echo.

 WD> Well, there was another exception ... there was an editor who just
 WD> dropped-out. Hasn't happened to Bjorn until further notice.

 WD> Take care,

 WD>  \%/@rd

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Jeff

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