>>Hey Mike
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>>I'm no MVP - and compared to the likes of Drew Speedie, I understand why.
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>>I have been thinking about this whole affair. First off MVP is not most voluble person. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/voluble
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>>The contributions of an MVP should provide real VALUE. I believe the people that choose the MVP look at more than just the frequency. Naomi's posts were numerous because she had an unfair advantage, but IMO they were rarely as technically important as the contributions of MVPs.
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>Unfair? In what way? Do you presume she had special privileges in the search engine? IF that was the case, then this was only true for a while. And how about Sergey then? He's probably the ultimate master in searching for previously discussed solutions.

Naomi apparently spent her employment hours and was basically paid to search out information to spread to others. Many cannot afford to spend their time time in this manner.

Sergey responds too quickly. He cannot be searching down an answer and simply regurgitating it. Further he alters the answers providing new solutions. There is no comparison.

I don't approve of what's been done, but IMO MVP is not about how they act, but what they know.

>I know of many (Dutch) politicians who had to give up their political career because they made one, apparently crucial, mistake, no matter how many years they had done well beforehand. One might criticize such a way of dealing with people. The disadvantage indeed is that talented leaders get out of focus, but the advantage is that abuse of power is less likely to occur.

What "power"? These are not politicians. To err is human, to forgive devine, and I'm no god.

>>Conversely, I feel sorry for Naomi. I know she doesn't have a lot of self-esteem and have told her to toughen up before. She even asked me (privately) if I thought her statements to Marcia on MSDN (I think?) were inappropriate. I concurred with the webmaster that it was not her place to criticize Marcia's (or for that matter) anyone's posts.
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>If you are here referring to the thread where Naomi told that Marcia's solution was overkill, then I disagree. That remark of Naomi was a quite relevant comment, esp. for a technical forum.

I and the webmaster disagree with you. I often site solutions that are "overkill". What most programmers do is underkill, IMO. Simplest example:

m.tdDate - DAY(m.tdDate) + 1 <- underkill - unreadable - unmaintainable - unextendable.

m.ldDate = FirstDayOfMonth(m.tdDate) <- overkill - readable - maintainable - extendable.

>>Naomi, Andy and Marcia harmed the VFP online communities by dragging the communities into this dispute. Employers must now be thinking to curtail access. That hurts every one of us.
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>There's this village. They do not have police. A woman gets raped in the park. She knows the rapist Since there's no police, she tells it to the neighboors. Later someone accuses both the rapist AND the victim of having dragged the community into this dispute. That's how it works, but that's not how it should work.

Your unbiased opinion, I presume. If a woman (to use your analogy) spent her time walking in the park instead of working and someone reported her for it, who is at fault?