>> The Addendum also allows exceptions to the itself with MST
>> approval, and of course the MST has the power to rewrite the document if
>> he so chooses.
>
> Given the second quote here, I'm having trouble seeing where it
> violates the Addendum for the MST to make an exception for this
> application.
The argument has never been that the MST does not have the power to define
the item the way that he has. The argument has been about its
appropriateness and the manner in which he did it. But that is also
irrelevant to the point I was attempting to make. The point was that this
item was sufficiently outside of what a normal notification is that it is
appropriate to engage in a debate over it. It is normal for a change to
the Addendum to first be debated among the NSTs and ANSTs and AMSTs. This
item was against the published rules and established policy, so in my
opinion is sufficiently abnormal to be worth at least some deliberation.
My whole explanation was intended to clarify why people take objection to
your statement that it "should not require much time for deliberation".
To build an alternate example, consider an RST deciding that xp awards are
too fluctuating in their region. They make a policy saying that all games
in the region must award precisely 3 xp per session. Later, they attend a
game that they think is great, and instruct the VST to award 5 xp for that
night. While they may have the power to do that, it is still against their
own policy and thus worthy of debate.
>> If there *was* a direct and explicit order to
>> approve it, then I wonder why Dale was not given similar instruction, and
>> why Jason was fired before he had the *opportunity* to not comply.
>
> Jason did not simply fail to process the application - he appeared to
> be actively resisting it. I would hazard a guess, though it's only a
> guess, that Alex didn't want to punish Dale for not taking his
> supervisor to task.
Appearing to resist something does not mean that it would be actually
denied. He did not push the deny button, nor did he say that he would not
approve it. You speculate that Dale did not want to touch it with a
10-foot pole, yet Dale made comments of his own more than a week before
Jason was fired. Did anyone ever ask Dale for the reason that he had not
yet approved it? Did anyone ever try to determine that it was Jason's
influence, or was it merely assumed because Jason had criticized the merit?
I apologize if some of this sounds confrontational, but I can't find a
better way to ask the questions or make my point.
Charlie Collins
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