09-24-2005, 02:56 PM
But see, the thing is, why not take the leap of faith to trust people?
Despite the average depiction of people being gormless and despicably selfish, they aren't always. Da_WOLFE has tried to take steps here to try and reform the site, and you keep trying to block him simply on the basis that you don't know him. Like I said before, you aren't losing any money, and you'll still have a place to post artwork (the DHZ), so what concrete material resources are you losing by trusting him, or anyone else who's volunteering to help?
Yes, I admit, it's certainly a gamble. I never said it wasn't. Why should you donate time and money in the first place if you don't even know the people? But I ask this: what makes me less reliable than Togashi, given that he's deserted the site twice? You'd donate money to him rather than me? Give the proposed system a chance before you call it down. This isn't a government where you're stuck with us for a 4 year term. If I or anyone else is doing a shitty job, people will be more than happy to slam us. Do you think I'd be arguing the legitimacy of peoples' intentions at 2:15AM if I didn't care?
Until such time as we present ourselves as unreasonably untrustworthy or royally screw up, give us a chance to help. We promise we won't say "I told you so."
Your concern for the site's well being has been noted. We're not discounting that. We all want the site to be more active and successful than it is now. But right now, fighting against the people trying to help is counter-productive. We all understand that you want this place to be the best it can be, but once people start defending their candidacy online at this time of the morning, at that point you can probably safely assume that they intend to do what they say they're going to.
I'm going to leave it at that. I just leave you with this: if I or others did not care about what happens here, why would we still be posting?
Despite the average depiction of people being gormless and despicably selfish, they aren't always. Da_WOLFE has tried to take steps here to try and reform the site, and you keep trying to block him simply on the basis that you don't know him. Like I said before, you aren't losing any money, and you'll still have a place to post artwork (the DHZ), so what concrete material resources are you losing by trusting him, or anyone else who's volunteering to help?
Yes, I admit, it's certainly a gamble. I never said it wasn't. Why should you donate time and money in the first place if you don't even know the people? But I ask this: what makes me less reliable than Togashi, given that he's deserted the site twice? You'd donate money to him rather than me? Give the proposed system a chance before you call it down. This isn't a government where you're stuck with us for a 4 year term. If I or anyone else is doing a shitty job, people will be more than happy to slam us. Do you think I'd be arguing the legitimacy of peoples' intentions at 2:15AM if I didn't care?
Until such time as we present ourselves as unreasonably untrustworthy or royally screw up, give us a chance to help. We promise we won't say "I told you so."
Your concern for the site's well being has been noted. We're not discounting that. We all want the site to be more active and successful than it is now. But right now, fighting against the people trying to help is counter-productive. We all understand that you want this place to be the best it can be, but once people start defending their candidacy online at this time of the morning, at that point you can probably safely assume that they intend to do what they say they're going to.
I'm going to leave it at that. I just leave you with this: if I or others did not care about what happens here, why would we still be posting?