Who gave (and continues to give) Tye his authority for his autocratic domination of PerlMonks?

[BrowserUk]

PerlMonks is not a democracy. That I get; understand and even endorse. But ...

Autocracy, without wide -- if not universal -- acceptance of divine right; invites question, challenge, and even rebellion.

From whom does Tye inherit his authority?

Where are: vroom, nate, kurt, Petruchio, theonetwo, yitzchak, seveas?

Do they -- knowingly -- (continue) to cede authority to Tye  or did he inherit his "authority" purely as an accident of those above named (former?) Gods, by dint of longevity alone?

And if so, should we -- collectively, the constant, responsive, backbone of PerlMonks - continue to accept his caprice over how, and why, and what, and when, happens and is possible, and should be acceptable, here at the Monastery?

Please Vote!

Copy, amend to taste and and paste: Yes: [ ]; No: [ ]; Don't know: [ ]; Don't care: [ ]?

[ig]

I have been here only a few years but over that time both you and Tye have been very helpful to me and others.

You said 'please vote' and considering the extent of your contribution here I am inclined to but I find the negativity and invective in your posts in this thread off putting. Clearly you are frustrated, but I don't know why. Perhaps I should know more or better or make the effort to find the evidence but... maybe I am lazy to a fault.

I don't contribute nearly as much here as you do and my limited experience might make me unfit to judge, but I have had no experience with Tye that causes me the frustration or disrespect that your post suggests.

I am pleased that Perl Monks is here. I don't know much about the contributions other than the posts themselves. I assume considerable time and resources have been given by many. I don't think it is my place or proper for me to expect or demand change to what is so generously provided.

I care. I don't know. I have nothing against Tye and respect and appreciate his contributions here, as I do yours. Everyone has their faults. Sometimes one finds them offensive. Despite whatever it is that has offended you to motivate this post, I hope you will continue to contribute as you have done - predominantly politely and constructively.

[BrowserUk]

Perhaps I should know more or better or make the effort to find the evidence but... maybe I am lazy to a fault.

And that appears to be the primary lesson from my shaking the box.

This place could be better, and that would be nice, but if it requires effort ... ooh. There's a new kitty video trending on twitface.

Don't be offended by that, it's neither a personal nor actual accusation of anything. Just an exaggerated statement of what appears to be.

Combine that with the very real fear that saying anything that might offend the management could cause the instance, permanent, and unappealable revocation of one's privilege to be here; and it is easy to see that there is neither the appetite nor realistic possibility for change.

[ig]

In short, those are interesting thoughts, quite right, it seems to me, but I still don't know, don't have authority or influence to make a difference and am not enough motivated to try (my fault, not yours).

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I think apathy is the greater impediment to change but there is always the possibility of it and appeal to all concerned will be most effective, in the long run, at least for those of us who do not have authority. This, combined with tolerance and forgiveness.

[Argel]

Spoken with your usual lack of tack, and missing the mark to boot. I think the question to ask, suggestion to make is that, given the general lack of oversight by TPF, the number of semi-active to barely active gods, and past abuses of position (the cabal acting as troll enablers a couple years back is a good example), isn't it time for some new gods? Or maybe even a democratically elected governing body (or at least an oversight committee)? I'm not sure how well those would go over, or even work for that matter, but at least they are something we could have an interesting discussion about.

As you no doubt noticed, raising personal grievances does not get you very far. Partly because of perceived slights, ingrained biases due to long held grudges, etc. Consider, for example, your view of tye juxtaposed with sundialsvc4's view of you.

And what of the result? Whether your account was hacked, a god disabled it, or the fallout from some random event billions of years ago finally hit earth, causing some anomaly to occur, you have weakened your position. And if people believe a god temporarily banned your account you have significantly weakened your position, because who will risk an even lengthier ban by joining your crusade?

I do not know what actually happened, but dang, what an incredibly damaging, self inflicted first salvo!

[BrowserUk]

And if people believe a god temporarily banned your account you have significantly weakened your position, because who will risk an even lengthier ban by joining your crusade?

Really. I think whomever saw fit to -- silently, unilaterally, and with neither warning nor announcement -- ban my account, made my point for me better than I ever could have hoped for.

Will anything come of it? That's not up to me, I did my part. It would require collective action to change things, and there seems to be apathy for that.

So I'll accept the conclusion of democratic apathy, shut-the-f***-up, and live with the status quo.

[Anonymous Monk]

Come on , its completely plausible that you weren't banned at all book

[daxim]

What's the caprice and autocracy? Details of your charge plox, or it didn't happen.

[Buk]

And whaddaya know.

After 10+ years of using the same login;m my userid suddenly no longer works.

You wanted capreice; you got it.

No doubt that this id will disappear forthwith; but till then, this is BrowserUk under enforcved alias. (Ps. I *never* give up!)

[Arunbear]

Recently, I had an issue with my login no longer working. The reason turned out to be that the password had been truncated to 8 characters in the database (so the password I originally chose no longer worked).

I don't know whether your problem is the same, but perhaps you can try logging in again using the first 8 characters of your original password.

[kschwab]

Is the password reset page not working for you either?

[jffry]

...should we...continue to accept his {Tye's} caprice over...the Monastery?

Yes: {X}; No: { }; Don't know: { }; Don't care: { }

My advice to you is to give up, move on, and put in effort elsewhere. If you have not done so already, I suggest that you get a Stack Exchange account and check out their Stack Overflow, Programmers, and Computer Science sites. I believe you will be happier there.

My experience causes me to hypothesize that it is rare for organizational entities with a significant history to have successful directed transformations. Instead, much more often, evolutionary leaps happen when a new thing comes along and renders the prior thing obsolete. Thus, I predict that whatever complaints you have about this place now, you will continue to have them for the next decade if you remain.

[thomas895]

I'm confused as to what's happening here. But could it be because of the perlmonks.(org|com|net) vs www.perlmonks.(org|com|net) thing?

[Anonymous Monk]

No. After 10+ years, I am totally indifferent to the survival og the human race. Until, you put it into terms that they --collectively - respect.

[Anonymous Monk]

And if so, should we -- collectively, the constant, responsive, backbone of PerlMonks - continue to accept his caprice over how, and why, and what, and when, happens and is possible, and should be acceptable, here at the Monastery?

Yes: {}; No: {}; Don't know: {X}; Don't care: {}

Instead of choosing every option I chose Don't know

I've been there... I've chosen to be free from XP/chatterbox... if a simple new question button can't gain traction what will? font changes naturally :)

Bigger Textarea, How can one enlarge the "Your question box"? (via CSS for textarea of new question )

other ideas i've had RFC - new shortform for newquestions with anysection dropdown/selection/option, RFC new question nodelet proposal (postshortcuts, newquestion, oneclickpostlinks, noscrollnewpost)

So you're shaking the box and the results are predictable :)

If not tye then who?

If not status-quo then what?

Not-breaking perlmonks beats improving stuff, I guess ... How does perlmonks work? What is perlmonks timeline for work?

Should I just start mocking up a perlmonks clone like perlknights only using mojo?

Oooh, developing via https://gist.github.com/ gives an everything kind of experience :)

BTW, 1st VOTE, WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOo i'm tired :)