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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:08:36 +0200
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It's time to clear this up.

I was joking (though I was and am in no way amused).

Nothing new has been approved by the BPFK. I was just trying to see if 
anyone was still paying attention to the mailing list. A few people have 
responded, and I'm happy to see that the responses were very mature, but 
most people seem to simply ignore everything that happens.

Many people only ever speak up when they have something to complain 
about (usually whenever something appears to be changing). Why do none 
of those people ever participate in anything constructive? Why has 
everyone been ignoring la uakci's many attempts at getting the community 
to participate in things like his interactive story or the weekly poems? 
How hard is it to respond with "Nice work, I'm looking forward to the 
next issue"? You managed to frustrate them so much that they have now 
left the mailing list. la uakci is one of the most promising new jbopre 
in the world, and it is a terrible choice to ignore their efforts and 
risk losing them because they receive nothing in return.

la uakci's situation is but one of many similar occurences, all of which 
seem to say nothing but "We don't care about what you do with Lojban and 
we don't do anything with it ourselves either, but don't you dare allow 
anything to change".

If you keep ignoring valuable people, you have no right to be surprised 
when they leave and take their talents elsewhere. Don't complain later 
when you didn't realize that Lojban changed right under your nose but 
you never cared to look. la uakci will keep producing Lojban content but 
you will no longer get to see it.

Lojban belongs in the hands of those who act, and sadly, you are not one 
of them. Why aren't you? And why spoil it for those who actually care?

~~~mi'e la selpa'i


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