>>With regard to the other, however, I don't think you should stoop to the same sort of behaviour we all have found so disreputable. Stay standing. Don't crawl in the muck.
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>>Alan, I agree with you 100%.
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>>Peter, while I can understand where you're coming from, I would take Alan's advice. In this instance, two wrongs don't make a right. Sure, being an MVP is a nice thing, a very nice thing - but being an MVP doesn't automatically mean that one is honorable, and one doesn't need to be an MVP to have honor.
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>I agree that being honorable isn't an official selection criterium. But I presume that being (or rather, acting) dishonorable towards one or more community members is not a plus. To be selected as an MVP the perception must be that this person is widely accepted and appreciated in the community for the technical help AND for the social behavior. The amount of money one donates to third world countries or the help given to poor people in the neighborhood is not of importance here. If that were the case, the corps of MVPs would at least in part consist of others.
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>Having said that, what's wrong/dishonorable with complaining? Here we're not only praising each other but also regularly complaining. Is that a bad thing in itself? Or do you regard sending in a complaint as dishonorable a priori? I sent in two complaints to Foxite's GodKing. Was that dishonorable of me? Or does it start to be dishonorable if sent to MS? At what point does it become dishonorable? Why was what AK did dishonorable? In my opinion it was not a priori dishonorable to complain. Even sending a complaint to one's employer can sometimes be 'understandable'. But IMO it was dishonorable to send this type of complaint to her employer.
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>Would it be dishonorable of Naomi if SHE sent in such a complaint to MS? If not, would it be dishonorable of others if they sent a message to MS in support of her?
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>Two wrongs don't make it right, indeed. But first I want to hear the arguments WHY it's wrong to file a complaint to MS, in THIS case.

What makes a complaint honourable or dishonourable is the spirit in which it is presented and the reason for it. If I buy a book and get ink all over my hands because of a bad print run, sure I'll complain, but it won't be with the end in mind of costing somebody's reputation or position. If I'm in a store and am severely insulted by an employee with a bad attitude, I might well complain because it was done to me and the store manager should know about it. Your complaint in this case is aimed at costing someone either reputation or postion (or both) for an action that really has nothing to do with you. Such a complaint as you are contemplating, it seems to me, is not done in any more pure spirit than the complaint sent about Naomi. I see them both as exhibiting similar levels of baseness. The degree may differ slightly, but I'm not big on measuring those sorts of actions by degrees of meanness.

If you are happy that the spirit of your complaint is pure, then go for it. There is nothing I can tell you to change your thinking, but since you asked my opinion, then there is it. I think it's a bad idea.