Doc,

Get real. I'm not asking for a lynching. Nor even a trial.

I'm asking for facts to be put into evidence.

If things were being held up so that they could be verified as being correct, that would have been fine. *IF* a post had been made saying so. That would have taken the powers-that-be all of 30 seconds to do, maybe less.

Given that I have faith that the powers-that-be are not nincompoops, ninnies, or complete dolts, I have to assume that if that is what was going on, they would have taken the step of posting a message saying, "We're doing such-and-such, results will be out on such-and-such. We apologize for the delay."

No such post was made. So, rather than switch my assumption about the quality of management, I'm telling myself that there are bigger issues going on. I'd like to know what those issues are, and what's being done about them.

In the end, FT is Randy's. I'm 100% aware of that. It's not just the case that it's his ball and he can call the game off and go home. It's his ball, his playground, his game, and even his realm of existance. They are all his. He's done a wonderful thing here, and we all owe him a lot for it.

However, the whole notion of a TalkBoard implies that he feels that there should be community involvement. The level of involvement has never (that I've seen) been clearly defined, but I have to assume that it will be in some advisory capacity. His desire for such input seems to me indicative of a desire on his part to involve members of the community in the evolution of FT. To want to involve the community somehow, and yet to keep the election proceedings so opaque is not consistant.

As such, I'm asking for information.

As I side note, I find your comments about "do the hangin'" to be rude, distasteful, and inflamatory in the extreem. Those were exactly the types of inane, useless ideas that I was trying to get away from when I started this thread. I'm also at a loss as to why you posted a link to your OMNI thread congratulating the election winners, unless your point was to highlight the expectation of results as ironic. I think your congratulations to the winners are completely irrelevant to this thread -- which is about process, not the results.