Sharp observations! (Although I had to guess as to what 'wave in the face' really means.)
>Perry,
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>You and I may feel it has nothing to do with MVP status, but IMHO it looms large in the minds and motivations of certain MVPs.
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>Examples:
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>- One of the protagonists has declared that N's desire for MVP status (which she denied) is a terrible motive for answering questions in technical forums. Actually, it is a mechanism recommended by MS itself for people with that ambition.
>- MVP status has been waved in N's face three times online to my incomplete knowledge.
>- MVP status was sufficiently relevant to one of the protagonists that he added it to the bottom of his letter.
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>Is that really what the award has been reduced to? There are consequences: I've seen it said four times on UT that the MVP award (in the VFP arena, anyway) is increasingly irrelevant. Shame- it used to be a lot more than that and there ought to be some recognition for the likes of Sergey B whose contributions never have been accompanied by grandstanding or in-groupism.
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