On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
What he was *asking* was whether there was a reason that he, as LLG
President, needs to keep up with a *huge* email thread (I myself
stopped reading it about two days ago; I simply have too many other
demands on my time).
But you previously said it was *not* speaking as the LLG president. My English can be seriously broken but in his first email the tone was personal.
That said, the only reason I might have over-reacted is that I really like the language and I'm sorry to see one of the longest and debated discussions on this list for a long time ended with a "tell us what you want and go away" argument. That's the best way to kill a community.
I routinely have to choose between fixing Lojban problems and doing
the work I'm actually paid for and eating a meal, because I don't
have time for all three.
I fully understand as this is common for everyone involved in non-profit activities. Nobody is expecting that things get changed overnight and nobody asked anything to LLG or made any unreasonable request. That's what I meant with "nobody forces you", if any formal request would have generated, it would have been sent to
llg-board@lojban.org (if I remember the address correctly).
You (collectively) may decided that I'm just a rude troll out of nowhere or may take this reaction as coming from somebody who cares and would like to see the language moving forward. I just felt the need of point out that the community would need *more* proposals about the language not less. Even if 99,9% of them would have been rejected there is the chance of getting a 0,1% improvement.
remod