(Moscovian @ Dec. 28 2007,21:34)
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Gee, Mark is being accused of being abrasive and Hena is supposedly being unreasonable... There's a day that ends in 'y'.
The one thing the two of you do agree on is your belief that Neal will do the right thing for the game. Any discussion beyond that is a waste of time, builds resentment between the two of you, and threatens to fracture the community even further.
Certainly the two of you can wait until Neal pokes his head in here and waves his magic wand (I suddenly had this awful vision of Neal in a tutu, fairie wings, carrying a sparkly wand with an Ork skull on the end of it -shudder-).
I didn't accuse Hena of being unreasonable, and Hena didn't accuse me of being abrasive (specifically). 
Rather it seems to me that Hena expressed a reasonable feeling of having been excluded from the process.
I'd rather the reasons were clear to everyone, (not least including me). It is possible that I do owe an apology for my abrasiveness and if so I offer it. Likely it has been largely born of frustration with ERC bs over the last several years. For the record let me state that Hena and I actually agree on most things I think...
I also think a lot of energy is expended due to confusion and misunderstandings over the status of various elements of the process, and people have often been arguing at cross purposes. I'd rather that it was at least more clear what elements of process we are disagreeing about, if anything. The whole point I opened the thread was to hear an airing of views to gain some clarity and understand what the obstacles and ways of moving forward are from here. I really want to hear what everyone has to say. I think forcing people to shut up is more likely to cause problems in the future than letting peoples views be heard.
