Let's assume for the sake of argument that you're one of a couple-dozen people involved in a series of contests on a webforum (not this one). The series has been going on for quite a while - a new contest every month for over a half decade. It's a reasonably popular contest series, with apparent camaraderie amongst the regular participants.
The person who has been organizing the contests and making sure the prizes went to the winners for that over-half-decade announces that he has to leave the contests for personal reasons.
Do you:
1) Get him a small farewell e-gift and send him a PM saying "thank you for all your hard work"?
2) Send him a PM saying "thank you for all your hard work" without getting a gift?
3) Don't send him a PM, and carry on as if nothing had changed?
4) Other (specify)
Let's put a few lines in here so folks can consider their answers before continuing ...
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...there, that should be enough.
As some folks may have guessed, this isn't a hypothetical situation.
Is it really so odd that I was the only person to choose option 1, only one other person chose option 2, and the other score-or-so people chose option 3?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The person who has been organizing the contests and making sure the prizes went to the winners for that over-half-decade announces that he has to leave the contests for personal reasons.
Do you:
1) Get him a small farewell e-gift and send him a PM saying "thank you for all your hard work"?
2) Send him a PM saying "thank you for all your hard work" without getting a gift?
3) Don't send him a PM, and carry on as if nothing had changed?
4) Other (specify)
Let's put a few lines in here so folks can consider their answers before continuing ...
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...there, that should be enough.
As some folks may have guessed, this isn't a hypothetical situation.
Is it really so odd that I was the only person to choose option 1, only one other person chose option 2, and the other score-or-so people chose option 3?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012