[atlarge-discuss] Joey Borda/Bordo declines panel nomination

[Joey Borda **star*walker** <starwalker@gay.com>]

To all interested:

While I appreciate the nomination for election as a "icannatlarge.org" 
panel member, and consider that I would make a good panel member, 
regretfully I must decline nomination at this time.

To understand my reasons best I point those with the time and interest to 
my icannatlarge.com volunteer profile at

http://www.icannatlarge.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=250

(1) There you will find enough personal information about me to understand 
my disinclination. It can best be summed in a paraphrase. "There are some 
just too gentle to live among baboons." Even saying this I fear I may be 
insulting baboons. My apologies to baboons.

(2) In all this time since August 8, 2002 only one other than myself has 
put up profile information at 
http://www.icannatlarge.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19, Bruce Young, plus one 
other a notice of volunteering.

While I'm sure there's a lot of information about other folks to be gleaned 
from posts to atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de the sheer volume of posts to 
the list mitigate against finding those needles in the haystack.

Even so I have come to respect quite a number of folks in icannatlarge only 
through the consistency reflected in their postings. Lately that has become 
nigh impossible. Sadly, I must filter out certain posters (also consistent 
in their postings) just to be able to stand reviewing mailing list postings.

My point here is that I am not much interested, were I to be elected, in 
serving with others I know little or nothing about. Given our experience of 
the last year need I say more?

If folks can't be bothered to coherently disclose themselves long before 
any elections so that their posts can be read along side of their profile 
information so that I may form an informed opinion of them along the way, 
why should I be interested in voting for them at an election?

(3) Once upon a time I felt compelled to save the world, especially in the 
face of the inaction, failure or the small success of others. I also felt 
compelled to get in the middle of fights as a peacemaker (being the son of 
an alcoholic that I am). Fortunately for me, and the world too I think, I 
no longer live under those compulsions. Dad's dead, and as to the world, 
well, it takes care of itself just fine without me attempting to shoulder 
it. In our immediate case the "spirit" of icannatlarge will find a way as 
well without me as a hard slogging panelist at this time.

(4) Call it what you will, along with continuing polling, I believe our 
first and greatest need is the certification of membership, and the 
election of a panel/committee for that purpose.

I would be willing to volunteer, to stand for election, to such a 
membership certification panel. Again, I can't see nominating people who 
haven't first put up a profile.

(5) Lastly, for me, the arguments over the current election effort have 
gotten so muddied and vitriolic that I will not even enter them. I have 
people I respect on several sides at least. I am grieved at too many of the 
posts. I no longer read them.

/s/ Joey Borda/Bordo

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 * 11:50 AM EDT

starwalker@gay.com
starwalker1st@earthlink.net
http://www.icannatlarge.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=250

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 * 11:50 AM EDT