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Skriven 2011-07-24 12:11:27 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Vicious comments
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Hello Robert,

On Sunday July 24 2011 08:50, you wrote to me:

 MV>> The only one who decides if it is time to go, is the editor himself.
 MV>> And unless he dies in office without appointing one, it is he and
 MV>> only he, who decides who will be his successor.

 RB> That sounds suspiciously like a hereditary monarchy. All you need is
 RB> one bad apple to gain power, and Fidonews is done for.

FidoNet is and never was a democracy. At best it is a polycracy. ZC's and RC's
mutually appoint each other and the RC's appoint the NC's. The FTSC members are
also appointed by the RC's. The Fidonews editor is appointed by his/her
predecessor. Nowhere in the chain of authority is and was there ever any say
from "the people".  Never in the 25+ year history of FidoNet was there a
serious attempt to change the system. It was good enough when all the Fidonews
editors came from Z1. It was good enough with a renegade like Thom Henderson in
the chair. Good enough during the administrations of Fruitcake Silvya Maxwell,
suicide candidate Christopher Baker, aberrant Zorch Frezberg and copycat Warren
Bonner. It was good enough when the seat went to Z5 racist Henk Wolsink.
Despite the fact that plenty of people had problems with all the above editors
emeritii.

If you wanted to change the system, you are 22 years late. You should have
acted before P4 was adopted. Now it is far too late in the game.

Calling for a change of the system now that YOU are on the receiving end of
having to swallow something you don't like is hypocrite.

 RB> At the moment, we _have_ (in my opinion) a "bad apple" who should be
 RB> considered on the basis of his achievements - and exchanged for
 RB> another editor/moderator if the readership so decides.

We had bad apples before. A whole basket full of them I'd say. The readership
is, and always was, free to vote with the feet.


Cheers, Michiel

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