To all people who feel that Michael Vincent has abused his power here at ticalc.org, i have set up a petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/ michaelv/petition.html where you can either support the protest or sign recommendations to Mr. Vincent on how to do his job better. He really hit me on the face with an iron when he deleted my "slightly abusive" protests. So anyways, go to the petition and read the paragraph (which is larger than Gary's; that was only part of it) on why Michael should either change the way he's doing things or get out. (Click the Link)

I'm just going to make a few quick points on this one:

1) I totally respect that you have comments on what was done. I beleive those comments should be analyzed and probably something done about it.

2) While I respect the creation of this petition, at the same time I find it very sad. Not because it's critical against a member of our staff - that happens, and I respect that too. In fact, constructive critisism certainly helps to improve. It's because where I come from, we try to discuss things in a civilized way first. If that fails, we start considering protest actions such as petitions. Sure, it comes to that more often than one might like, but at least an *attempt* at discussion is made first. As far as I know, Michael was not contacted by email about this. I know for a fact that I was not. Both of us, and I'm sure also Nickd, would defintily have been available for discussion about this, had somebody bothered to contact us.

3) I absolutely *DO NOT* respect people signing up on the petition under a fake name. In particular, signing up under Michaels name. I never will accept this kind of childish behaviour. I can only hope that this was not done by one of the people behind the petition. If it turns out it was, that voids the respect in points 1 and 2 above. My hopes are it was just somebody trying to make sum fun at somebody elses expense.

I certainly know it wasn't me that signed under a fake name. I think it tracks your IP address, and I had already posted once. Personally, I think you guys made a good choice. I eagerly await to see what happens. However, I was amazed (and a bit shocked) by the amount of post deletion that was going on. That's pretty much the only reason I signed the petition; I wanted Michael to tone it down a bit.

You can only vote Against Michael? That seems awful unfair. Is there any place I can vote for him?


Samuel S, I am the one and only Cheerio.

You can vote for him at that petition--he just won't tell you that. Also, half of the current, legitimate posts support Michael.

What do you have against him? Deleting one or two posts is *NO* reason to hate somebody. Grow up.

Currently there are 12 legitimate sigs:

One that states "We feel that michael vincent has abused his power long enough" (he's been here for 3 days, what "long enough"?);
Two that answer yes under "Is Michael Vincent abusing his priveleges?", but there comments state they want to give him a chance to settle;
Nine votes (three times as many as the above combined) that support Michael.

It appears that the mayority of the community is behind Michael, so let's stop this discussion and go do something useful, eg. read the three news items Michael's given you, in under 25 hours.