Prim, I've been kind of running around in a circle trying to point out that the charter is so broad, that anyone can get what they want done, hold the charter up as a shield, and get away with it, IF THE RANGERS LET THEM.
The Rangers have power, should have power, and should excercise that power. Every time I've made a suggestion to a ranger about MY recent situation, the response has been "It's out of our hands, we don't have that power." Which may be true, and probably is true the way I read the charter.
HOWEVER, they put themselves in that position by not using their power at the appropriate time, or using it in an inappropriate way. I'm not blaming them, it's not easy and it's not like there's a lot of precidence.
What HAS happened though, and this is not just with the rangers, is that we've gotten SO CAUGHT UP in "What does the Charter say about this?" or "how can we interpret the charter here?" or "Is this section of the charter up for debate" or "Do we need to change this section too?" ALL OF WHICH is
TOTALLY IRRELEVANT
We need to look at what is happening, find the right solution, and use it. The charter was written to do that, not in a strict way, but as a reference so someone doesn't get out of hand.
Jnyusa TRIED to use it this way to settle everything down, but was tryign to do it without pissing anyone off TOO Much. I say she should have done what it would have taken to settle things down and if it pissed people off that was their problem.
MariaHobbit switched to having this point of view just recently, as did Holby, and I think that's fine, but I agreed with both of them that they should let things be early on.
The right thing to do, if people thought I was disrupting thing would have been to confine me to the bikeracks ALONG WITH ANYONE ELSE IN MY DISPUTE and make us figure it out, while the rest of you people got your board free of disruption back.
It didn't happen, and now we're in a big mess. Hindsight is 20-20, but useless if you don't use it and get lost in the mess in the meantime...
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