My one message is all the inconvenience the candidates for recruitment get. You don't see me complain about the 20+ messages I had to answer from a few socially-starved geek teenagers for whom it was their first private message and who asked me for dating advice and the best acne medication. I get up to 30 PMs every day from members asking me for guidance on all kinds of subjects and situations anyway or from people who need someone who simply will listen.
People who are well aware of rc5 and are not cracking can be considered to have rejected this endeavour with a clear mind. My message provides most of the relevant data on which to base such a decision to those who might otherwise not come across that information. Call it spoon feeding if you like but spending the 2-3 minutes necessary to read it does require less effort on their part than doing the research on their own. Some people who had rejected rc5 because of hastily misconceived notions did in fact reconsider in the light of more and better-organized information and joined our team.
What some call spamming, in electoral circles we call canvassing. When I was able-bodied, I used to do it door-to-door and encountered my fair share of both favourable and hostile greetings when trying to put forward my candidate as the best choice for the municipality, the district, the province or the country. I am simply knocking on the candidate's AnandTech electronic door and presenting my case. Instead of being done in an oral manner, it is done with written words because that happens to be the medium which allows the flow of information from the recruiter to the candidate in this case.
Uninformed people cannot choose. Informed people can. By providing candidates with relevant data, I empower those people and allow them to decide, yes or no.
Although I'm a Canadian, in terms like those of U.S. constitutional politics, I would classify myself as a broad constructionist. When I am instructed to stop because judgement from the appropriate authorities formally declare my action to be illegal for this contest or this venue, I will obey. Until then, I consider that what is not expressly forbidden is allowed. Considering this my Louisiana purchase, it comes as no surprise that I would encounter resistance and even hostility from the strict constructionists within the AnandTech community.
BTW, WombatWoman did not write my message.
Also, Rendus, I did not give you my consent to make public a private message from me. I still do not and ask that the moderator delete the message from your post. This was a private message. I ask that no one who has seen it use it without my permission for I do not wish worthy candidates to get duplicate invitations by mistake.
People who are well aware of rc5 and are not cracking can be considered to have rejected this endeavour with a clear mind. My message provides most of the relevant data on which to base such a decision to those who might otherwise not come across that information. Call it spoon feeding if you like but spending the 2-3 minutes necessary to read it does require less effort on their part than doing the research on their own. Some people who had rejected rc5 because of hastily misconceived notions did in fact reconsider in the light of more and better-organized information and joined our team.
What some call spamming, in electoral circles we call canvassing. When I was able-bodied, I used to do it door-to-door and encountered my fair share of both favourable and hostile greetings when trying to put forward my candidate as the best choice for the municipality, the district, the province or the country. I am simply knocking on the candidate's AnandTech electronic door and presenting my case. Instead of being done in an oral manner, it is done with written words because that happens to be the medium which allows the flow of information from the recruiter to the candidate in this case.
Uninformed people cannot choose. Informed people can. By providing candidates with relevant data, I empower those people and allow them to decide, yes or no.
Although I'm a Canadian, in terms like those of U.S. constitutional politics, I would classify myself as a broad constructionist. When I am instructed to stop because judgement from the appropriate authorities formally declare my action to be illegal for this contest or this venue, I will obey. Until then, I consider that what is not expressly forbidden is allowed. Considering this my Louisiana purchase, it comes as no surprise that I would encounter resistance and even hostility from the strict constructionists within the AnandTech community.
BTW, WombatWoman did not write my message.
Also, Rendus, I did not give you my consent to make public a private message from me. I still do not and ask that the moderator delete the message from your post. This was a private message. I ask that no one who has seen it use it without my permission for I do not wish worthy candidates to get duplicate invitations by mistake.