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Grex Oldcoop Item 49: The cross item, spawned from the jp2 campaign item
Entered by other on Sat Dec 6 07:56:08 UTC 2003:

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#34 of 53 by flem on Mon Dec 8 19:38:57 2003:

It's true that board members don't have access to all the information
staff has.  We don't get staff email, and most of us don't read the
staff conference (though I think we can).  I wasn't aware of all the
details that cross explained above, and some of his actions make more
sense in light of them.  
  I, too, find myself with some concerns about the practice of locking
an account because it is suspected to be used by a known vandal.  I
think it deserves further discussion, as does the idea of what to do
when a user account is locked mistakenly -- but those things have
nothing to do with cross individually.  
  
I really think it's important to be supportive of staff, especially
right now.  We have a couple of people on grex that have discovered a
way to attack them personally, by doing borderline-abusive behavior,
then coming to coop and complaining loudly about anything staff does to
them as a result.  And because it *is* pretty borderline stuff, they are
finding some support among the normal denizens of coop.  Instead of
running malicious software, these vandals are trying to infect the
community of Grex with malicious memes.  
  What we can do about it is be supportive of our staff volunteers, and
-- this is important -- cut them some slack.  If we disagree with the
way staff handles something, we still need to talk about it, that's what
we do on Grex, but let's be particularly careful to use tact.  Let's
discuss what we should do the next time something similar happens rather
than pick apart an individual staff member's actions.  Let's talk about
what the proper solution to the problem is rather than questioning a
staff member's qualifications.  

Mary, I think you could do a little better at this.  

Dan...  *let* us be supportive of you.  Do you know what being the
high'n'mighty "President of Grex" means?  It means you get to hold the
gavel at board meetings.  Well, and call Zingerman's to reserve a room,
too.  But that's pretty much it.  Mary doesn't speak for the rest of us,
any more than jp2 speaks for the rest of us.  Would you get this upset
because jp2 disagreed with your decisions?