Maybe you should run for council or suttin'. I bet you would make changes.

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I have not been shy in the past for suggesting that council Members not be forum moderators.

This is nothing personal against any particular moderator. IT is just my belief that there is already the mistaken impression that the Council represents Nokia interests in this community and if Council members were moderators, by extension, that impression would be that the forum is a company one.

So if for the good of the community, threads are moved, closed, or any other action taken by a moderator it is by extension, under the direction of Reggie and can not be easily argued as being a result of the Council or Nokia's influence.

A-hats still would of course but there wouldn't be any wind behind the sails of such claims and the threads that purport this would have a sad but short life and die of natural causes.

I went further and said that Reggie or the forum administrator should have autonomous control over how the forum is organized and run and that should be understood by proclamation from the Council. Because the council was supposedly "charged" with overseeing the forum operation I said that this could be accomplished by appointing the Admin for an agreed upon term. That term could have been for life if they so desired. My intention was to keep the Council, and by perceived extension Nokia, at least an "arms length" away from the operation of the forum.

This was to much to grasp for some and my sentiments were somehow twisted into me "Not being happy with Reggie" or somesuch. This was the farthest from the truth as my intention was to give Reggie and his mods the freedom to trash (soft delete) threads (perhaps like this one ) and then if someone had a problem, provide a landing page with a form for contacting the administrators and not lobbying the council in this forum.

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