Truer words

[akirlu]

You know, only last night I had it pointed out to me that roadnotes is a moral coward. Little did I know. I've always been a bit suspicious of her tendency to file all the identifying marks off the transaction when she is badmouthing someone who's been so mean and unreasonable toward her, but being now the object of same, my suspicions are confirmed. The 'debt' she has is several thousand dollars of other people's money -charitable donations- which she misused. She's several payments in arrears on a sum that is only a portion of what she had passed on to her, and several payments at an incredibly lenient rate at that. And now she's very put out at a hint that buying fountain pens on eBay seems profligate when she hasn't made a payment in half a year. Poor thing. And when she complains that there's nothing like being told how grateful she should be for favors she was unaware of, she doesn't mention that she was unaware of them because she has made herself scarce from every forum where she might be forced to be aware of them. But you wouldn't know any of that, because she has erased every comment I've posted. Because letting people see the other side of the story might diminish the number of pity points and amount of sympathetic righteous indignation she can milk people for.

Comments

[ssprince.livejournal.com]

I wonder whether I would have committed a pecadillo or a crime if I had won? (besides the gaucherie of standing at all). I would certainly have leaned on you very heavily.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

There but for the grace, yeah, I know. Although I was just sitting around on [Bad username or site: kate schaefer @ livejournal.com]'s porch last night, and she opined that had you won, you would have been an exceedingly responsible administrator, and that the real chore for you would have been the trip... Me, I'm starting to feel like it really is time to revist the whole process.

[ssprince.livejournal.com]

!! I would have agonized endlessly over every bit of responsibility. On another hand I have recently begun thinking again about what I would like to do in making my own version of such a trip - see moors and fells, and sites from Regency and Napoleonic-war novels, rather than a convention with many fans at close quarters - and who would have thought I could be even more ashamed of my country's government....

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

I think what needs to be revisited is getting voters (and nominators, and people who talk to people who are thinking about running) to consider both halves of the requirements: the delegate must be both someone whom we want to represent our fandom on whatever side of whichever big pond we're on *and* someone who would be a responsible and efficient administrator. I think people get hung up on part A and excuse part B as something that no reasonable fan should be required to do well. Which given how many administrators have done just fine is bollocks, as far as I'm concerned. I think we need to start saying to candidates that being charming is fine as far as it goes but you also have to be able to keep track of donations and run two elections. One would hope we don't generally have to add a caveat about not borrowing money that isn't yours.