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I've moved Brian Shorey's response to Noah from the BB New Subscription Thread to this one. Since Brian's post I have received several e-mails regarding the topic of AROC, the bb, and the support or inter-dependence of the two or lack there of as it pertains to the Alfa community as a whole, as well as several other issues, including but not limited to, the publishing of the Owner, the expense, The Owner content and format, the price of the dues and perceived value etc.
I consider these personal and private communications that will not be forwarded, so the best that I can do, if asked about how others feel about a defined incident, product, or proposal is pass the thoughts along in a general and non-descript way without disclosing the author or source.
While it's nice that there are those of you who are willing to share your thoughts with me, I am powerless to influence anything, affect change, and I have no vote in what the board ultimately does or decides nor am I privy to what is on their discussion agenda.
If there are members out there who find board members or the Board in general unapproachable, which there seem to be, don't think they'll pay attention, don't want to be involved in the politics, etc. and do not want to send an individual PM or e-mail, or post to the open forum as Brian has suggested below, and wish to remain anonymous; I will forward member concerns to an individual board member, specified board members, or the Board in general, anonymously, by removing the sender information and any reference location to chapter etc. that could identify you if that will help to open what appears to be a lack of communication for whatever reason.
Personally for me, I would be put off by the use of the words "constructive criticism," which to me says don't complain or criticize if you don't have a solution to offer, but yet they appear to desire input. If being challenged over a solution is a concern, by all means find a way to make your voice heard anonymously, however, you choose to do it.
I'm hopeful that just this post may open the road to communication on this forum between members and the Board of Directors over AROC issues and concerns.
I consider these personal and private communications that will not be forwarded, so the best that I can do, if asked about how others feel about a defined incident, product, or proposal is pass the thoughts along in a general and non-descript way without disclosing the author or source.
While it's nice that there are those of you who are willing to share your thoughts with me, I am powerless to influence anything, affect change, and I have no vote in what the board ultimately does or decides nor am I privy to what is on their discussion agenda.
If there are members out there who find board members or the Board in general unapproachable, which there seem to be, don't think they'll pay attention, don't want to be involved in the politics, etc. and do not want to send an individual PM or e-mail, or post to the open forum as Brian has suggested below, and wish to remain anonymous; I will forward member concerns to an individual board member, specified board members, or the Board in general, anonymously, by removing the sender information and any reference location to chapter etc. that could identify you if that will help to open what appears to be a lack of communication for whatever reason.
Personally for me, I would be put off by the use of the words "constructive criticism," which to me says don't complain or criticize if you don't have a solution to offer, but yet they appear to desire input. If being challenged over a solution is a concern, by all means find a way to make your voice heard anonymously, however, you choose to do it.
I'm hopeful that just this post may open the road to communication on this forum between members and the Board of Directors over AROC issues and concerns.
silverspider said:This AROC stuff should be PM fodder, and not for this thread.
bshorey said:bshorey's Avatar
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As a concerned AROC BoD member, I'd like to make a couple of suggestions:
1) If you have concerns with AROC, please raise them! Start a thread in the AROC forum, Simon has been very gracious in setting it up for us, and we're hoping to make some use of it. My only request is to please try to keep the criticism constructive, I personally don't want to see AROC bashing threads.
2) If you don't feel comfortable discussing things in a public forum, then feel free to PM myself, or any of the other BoD members. We really are trying to make the club a better place, and it would help is if we knew what peoples concerns were.
3) If you're not comfortable with either of the above, then find a way to send your input anonymously. We still want to hear it.
Thanks all,
bs