Memories And Kharma
Joel “Edmund” Martinez knows how to finish a game with XNA, while Andy “Earl of Gloucester” Dunn still tries to establish this “common sense” thing on the forums.
Intermission: most of the personas featured in this series are part of the preferable category mentioned at The Problem With MVPs – and, frankly, I cannot name one that would fall into the other category right now…
Vincente “Curan” Cartas battens in memories of the MVP Summit, Chad “Oswald” Carter repudiates his fetish and Chris G. “Edgar” Williams meets Kharma and has a Game Design Dilemma, asks Nine Questions.
Meanwhile, George W. “Fool” Clingerman is back at work, accepts meetings when there’s coffee and doesn’t know who he is. Richard “Caius” Fine knows himself.
Catalin “A Herald” Zima will be with us for yet another year and so will Pieter “Old Man” Germishuys. But at the end of the week, only George W. “Fool” Clingerman counts.
April 3rd, 2010 - 02:04
Interesting article about the MVP’s but in the end the article suffers the fate of over generalisation. People will speak of their personal experiences and each experience wont be consistent with every one else’s because each experience is with a unique, individual, person. Perhaps the article would have better served it’s purpose if it suggested improvements to the institution that is MVP or suggesting ways of calling out what is seen to be unproductive MPV behaviour, in the occurrences where it may occur.
I did take out one point about MVP’s – they are granted the respect of the community, through the custodians of the community (Microsoft) and this acknowledgement comes with great responsibility.
On the rare occurrence when this responsibility isn’t upheld; when we see behaviour which fly’s in the face of the spirit of, being an MVP. I.e. When the ‘rules’ of the forum become more important than the content of the discussion itself. Where a new user is berated for asking a question that was first asked a year ago, answered and long forgotten about. etc. These things to me are in direct opposition to building a community and if an MPV ever takes this action, I think it has more detrimental impact to the community than if another user took the same action – which is when that _individual_ MVP may lose my respect.
~ DSebJ