It has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Some well deserving folks like Bonnie and Carl get the heave ho while others stay in for years after they deserve it.

I have no complaints myself. I was in for 5 or 6 years when I deserved to be, when I answered a lot of tech questions instead of just being a chatterbox, and then when I didn't deserve it any more I was dropped. I did like the trinkets, I won't lie.

Well, what do you know. I just set a goal for myself to be a C# MVP by 2011.

>Oh, an additional note:
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>Carl Warner was also not renewed. Considering how many people are members of VFUG and receive the VFUG newsletter, that's a downright huge oversight. Is this all based on post count? Do they want to turn this into a beauty contest - Carl would never win a post count contest - he's too busy keeping 40,000 VFUG members freely serviced. I consider Carl and Mike Fournier the two pillars of the community watering-holes and one of those was just knocked down. IMHO, totally uncool, and I hope I'm not the only one raising hell about Carl.
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>Hey current and former MVP friends take note - if they take out Carl who knows who might be next?
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>>Well, gang ... this sucks, but I have NOT had my MVP status renewed this awards cycle (Oct. 1). I was kind of half-expecting it, because my community contributions have gone way down since about April, for lots of various reasons. But it still sucks. =0(
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>>I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm just posting this as an FYI, in case anyone's interested in my demise. ;-)