>>>Well, I'm glad for you but not too happy about Carl Warner and VFUG. He was axed. Doesn't seem right that any of the community leaders should be screwed.
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>>It is my understanding that many have not been renewed and I believe they should have been. I really do not know the specific details in regards to each of those persons and how the revision process was done. But, I guess one could still send some recommendations to the MVP team and request additional verifications.
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>When you axe people from this site, you don't give them the courtesy of advanced warning, no reason and a resolute stance on what is admin behind the scenes is nobody's business. Now the shoe is on the other foot and you want answers from MS's admin behind the scenes. You can't have it both ways. What goes around comes around.

Michel has never pretended this site is democratic, or that his admin processes are open and transparent. He doesn't hand out awards that he hopes become internationally recognized as a standard of excellence.

OTOH the value of an MS MVP is proportional to the openness of its awarding process. If it's not open, hey, the MVP program is obviously a bunch of MS-cliquers and brown-nosers patting each other on the back, right?

So because the expectations aren't the same, Michel CAN have it both ways.