>>General complaints about the product, which TamarG says happen a lot in those private channels, are NOT under NDA (or are they?).
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>Yes they are. Why would only half of what happens in the channels (who's existence is under NDA as well) be public and not the other half?
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>Jim, get over it. Send in your suggestion to the community people at Redmond. "MVPs are bad for the community"
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Mike,

Let me clarify here too that I did NOT say, in any way, shape or form that "MVPs are bad for the community" and the fact that you have put it in quotes strongly suggests to any reader that I did say so.
So please make a correction of that.

What I did say is that I felt that MVP's usage of "private channels" for the discussion of ERs and bugs is not helpful to the community and really not helpful to them either. That you are an MVP yet were so quick to incorrectly re-state my words in a highly negative way tells me, though, that there's not much hope for change. The incorrect restatement only confirms the perception that some have already offered in this thread.

There's nothing to "get over" as all I'm trying to do is to make a constructive suggestion.

That's all.