those are you words, not mine.Hmm... does that make me Pontius Pilate? ;-)
Look, you agreed with another MVP that "being motivated by the desire to be given the MVP award is a terrible motivation for answering quations on any forum."
So check this out (particularly the last paragraph)
http://www.mvps.org/about/mvp.html and tell me which bit I got wrong.
Even if it wasn't MS's advice, why would you two object if there are people out there who want to strive to become MVPs? IME if an award's not worth striving toward, it's not worth having.
As it is, Naomi says she's not doing it to become a MVP, but she does answer more questions in a day than many MVPs answer in a week.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
