Frankly, I'm glad you wrote this to folks because I thought it was extremely harsh to imply that the people who were expressing concerns were doing so because they 'resented' someone else's talents. That could not be further from the truth. At no point has anyone acted petty, resentful, or vengeful. If they were, we most certainly would *not* be vested in their concerns.
I've personally fielded the concerns about this section for almost, what, a year now...? And Admin and Jmuedog have done the same. The many concerns that have been expressed during this time have been valid. We can all see that I started this very thread back in JUNE; after that point, we hoped the discussion in this thread would have helped
enough in working out the kinks. It didn't. Hence, now we're compelled to find a more official way to manage the issues in this section.
Now, if
all that is considered petty - I'll certainly be happy being called petty
. Look folks, this is not a one-sided deal here, so let's please not be polarizing. If this was one-sided, we'd either ignore the concerned members OR we'd shut down this section completely. That's one sided.
I'm pretty sure we're all on the same team here, at least I hope so. Like I said earlier, we're trying to find the middle ground - I think that's a pretty fair goal to all, and we can't do much better than that.
And p.s. - I really don't have a problem with a limit of 4 new items. Let's try it. But please keep in mind that if we need to change it again, then we need to be flexible.