Thread: Maemo Community Council elections: Nominations open!
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2010-03-24 , 08:05
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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
I believe that a conduit by nature is bi-directional and because of that it is also the Councils duty to provide Nokia with accurate and relevant information generated by the community. Doing so I believe, does represent the communities best interest to Nokia ?
The stricter interpretation of this is that the conduit is uni-directional and Nokia-generated information only flows downward from them to us.
How on earth do you get that strict interpretation, which you then go on to asssign to GeneralAntilles? He's one of the longest standing enthusiasts and, without being a programmer, shows you don't need to write software to contribute to this community. He's also one of the loudest voices of the community and is very well heard by Nokia AFAICT.

That could be debated for years and if that is the case I would prefer that this loose interpretation be known as "YoDudien" and those who subscribe to it, "YoDudiens". [...] the "GeneralAntilien" interpretation. "Antilliens" for short would be nice to describe followers of this principle but then they might be confused with just some guy from Sint Maarten...
I've never seen anything as clumsy in trying to position your fellow nominee as having a position which he doesn't have, whilst trying really hard to not actually say that he - specifically - has that interpretation.

For everyone else, please follow the example our good friend qole has shown. The best thing you can do for our community right now is to vote.
Apart from the general platitudes - about "everyone should be nice" (duh) and "forums can be powerful" (duh) and "the community shouldn't act like a Nokia mouthpiece" (duh), none of which people would disagree with - this is the most sensible thing you say here.

Thanks for reading.
I think you owe Ryan an apology for so grossly misrepresenting his opinion as the core tenet of your piece.
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