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Subject: Re: ChrisW Nomination correct or not

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:33:13 12/23/98

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On December 23, 1998 at 15:23:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 22, 1998 at 23:15:55, Dan Kiski wrote:
>
>>On December 22, 1998 at 23:11:25, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>
>>>On December 22, 1998 at 20:22:05, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 22, 1998 at 09:49:33, Harald Faber wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 22, 1998 at 09:23:15, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>b) Knew of Sean's bogus accounts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Why should CW be responsible for SE bogus accounts???
>>>>>
>>>>>>If you would prefer a less "I am my brother's keeper" approach, consider that in
>>>>>>the jurisdictions I am aware of, it is a criminal act to have knowledge of a
>>>>>>criminal act and not to inform the authorities.  (I am not saying that Chris
>>>>>>committed a criminal act.  It's just an analogy.)
>>>>>
>>>>>That is a bad analogy. We are not talking of crime.
>>>>>
>>>>>>I do think that if Chris was genuinely concerned about the legitimacy of the
>>>>>>upcoming CCC moderator elections, he would have notified either ICD or one of
>>>>>>the moderators so that action could have been taken.  If he took this step, and
>>>>>>I just am not aware about it (because I am not "well-connected" or because that
>>>>>>is supposed to be a secret or whatever :), then I would say "thanks, Chris" to
>>>>>
>>>>>Why should he? He was banned from CCC so you can't expect some kind of "thanks"
>>>>>from him.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Well, he should, because it is the ethical thing to do.  Or, maybe his ethics
>>>>are different than mine. <shrug>
>>>>
>>>>>>And, for the record, it's my opinion that if (and only if) both Chris and Sean
>>>>>>were members in good standing at the time of Sean's nomination of Chris, then
>>>>>>the nomination should have been allowed to stand.  I don't know if Chris is a
>>>>>>member in good standing or not, that is actually a complete question mark to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>AFAIK Chris was and still is a banned member, as far as I understand it one
>>>>>would say "no member" because user name exists but no entry allowed.
>>>>
>>>>Well, probably someone else could shed more light on this than I could.  I think
>>>>at one point he resigned from the CCC Board, then someone took that opportunity
>>>>to change his password (at his request?), then he asked for it back but it was
>>>>not granted, then he apparently showed up as Steve Blatchford for a while... I
>>>>am sure there are parts to the saga that I have missed, and possibly some of
>>>>what I've said was inaccurate as well.  I mean, that's why I just said "I don't
>>>>know if Chris is a member in good standing or not" in the first place.  Maybe
>>>>it's clear to some people, but it's about as clear as mud to me.
>>>>
>>>>Dave Gomboc
>>>
>>>Bruce Moreland has mentioned in another post that Chris is on the banned list,
>>>and he ought to know, so that's that.
>>>
>>>Bruce also didn't accept the procedural argument, which is okay, but still not
>>>my choice.  In any event, if Chris is truly interested in becoming a moderator,
>>>he can appeal to whoever the new moderators are for clemency to "unban" him.
>>>Whether they agree or not is obviously something else.
>>>
>>>Bad pun for the day: Who is going to "ban" people when Amir is gone? :)
>>>
>>>Dave Gomboc
>>
>>You will....I hope !!
>
>And may he be crafty in his thought processes when he does.
>
>:)

Thanks for the endorsements. :-)

I've taken a look at the other nominees' statements.  Some of them go over how
they would act in a few cases.  I didn't really do this in mine, I thought I had
been vocal enough in the main area that it wouldn't be worthwhile.  For
instance, I responded to questions posited by Bruce (and Amir's add-on), and I
think I was the only nominee that did.

Frequent readers know where I stand; I don't think that is a problem, but it's
possible that infrequent readers who go directly to the polling booth won't
think that I have much of a platform, and that would be unfortunate.  I suppose
I'll just have to wait and see what happens. :)

Dave Gomboc



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