<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>For over twenty years I've been "channel operator" on various chat channels. I always found my role to be akin to that of a janitor, someone who serves a community without demanding much in return. </div><div><br></div><div>There was always one policy I followed when it came to selecting someone to become fellow operator: "s/he who asks for it will never get it." </div><div><br></div><div>Why? Simply because those who want the spot don't want it for the work and service to others, but because it would make them appear "more powerful", "more respectful", "more important". Times and again when the policy was not followed, experience has shown and reconfirmed that deviating from it leads to bad results. </div><div><br></div><div>Instead, those whom I asked to become fellow 'ops' were those who worked silently and diligently to create harmony, to develop sensical common positions, those who had service to the community at their heart and who would refuse the offer at first for fear of not being able to fulfill the position of trust to the best interest of their community. </div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps this example could inform also those in and around this community in setting and in accepting the selection criteria and nomination processes. </div><div><br></div><div>Of course, you are perfectly free to completely ignore this suggestion or to start a "shitstorm" over this. ;-)</div><div><br><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Peter</span><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div></div><style><!--
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