>Good morning Peter;
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>I understand your concern and below are my thoughts on this topic. Personally, I do not wish to do anything negative against another person. It is a matter of my value system.
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>Why not have those interested eMail AK and MA, and let them know your views on this subject? I am not sure of what the end result might be. You could be terminated from your employment as a gesture of your concern on this topic. If you are interested you could contact Microsoft and recommend NN as a MVP.
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>Others have already begun to take action to protect themselves including you! :) Remove reference to your place of employment and where you live. Then you will have a better chance of protecting yourself and expressing your opinion.
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>The entire topic is distasteful. It is like living in a den of cobras. You do not know from whom or when a strike might occur. This is a “community”? It is more than dysfunctional! Perhaps a new category of developer could be created indicating who hurt others the most for the year.
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>Tom
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>P.S. Looking for a new flag to indicate where I do not live! Suggestions invited. :)

The States propagate free speech, don't they?! That's also why I moved to your country. :)

>>I'm considering to write an email to MS, asking them to think at least twice before they again award the MVP status to AK and MA. This is not nice of me, I know. But here are some facts and arguments:
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>>1) AK has put his MVP status in the signature of the letter and in this case I regard that as an abuse (see: http://hyp.viafox.nl/ut/nnak.pdf).
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>>2) A MVP can be expected to not only be superior in technical knowledge, but also to adhere to good rules of conduct. I'm of opinion that they haven't in this case.
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>>3) The MVP program tries to stimulate the community members being helpful to the community, esp. in a technical way. It is exactly that type of attitude that AK and MA tried to frustrate in the case of NN. On many occasions they intimidated her to refrain from being present in the forums so much time. The letter to the employer is the ultimate proof of this. Also they criticized her for the quality of her answers, at the same time not accepting her occasional criticism of their answers, thus further intimidating her.
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>>Also I'm considering to propose MS to give NN a MVP award for the coming year. A collection of her many contributions of the past year in the various forums makes very clear that her knowledge and willingness to help are exceptional.
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>>If you're interested we might send the email on behalf of more community members. It may be that you don't agree with one of my considerations, that's fine with me. Or perhaps you have your own arguments and want to write your own email, that's also fine with me. Or perhaps you want to criticize my arguments here first, that's also fine with me. I can be reached via private message, private email and here publicly.