[Artemisia] Fwd: [Announcements] Newsletter Production Stipends

[Allen Hall]

Belladonna,

I have been a Baronial Chronicler as well.  I have been the Baronial Seneschal 3 times, the Baronial Knight Marshal 2 times, the Principality Seneschal, the 1st InterKingdom Advisory Council representative for Atenveldt, the Kingdom Earl Marshal for four years, and am now the Kingdom Equestrian marshall.  Thank you for advising me of all the work involved in being a chronicler...but I'm quite aware of it.

Entitlement?  You obviously don't know me at all.

I'm sure you're familiar with the term "egocentricy".  Even if I can't spell it correctly, it means that a person presumes that everyone else thinks the same as them.  Wrong.

Several people have mentioned their personal situation doesn't allow for easy internet access.  It may seem strange to some, but take a look at the map of Artemisia.  You'll see MANY small little towns, some with limited access to Internet what-so-ever.  And yes, some of those areas only have dial-up.  Do you remember what dial-up is?  Suffice it to say it's a different way to spell SLOW.   Sometimes slow to the point that your computer just plain freezes up.

Your assumption that everyone has the same easy access to internet that you do is incorrect.  Your assumption that everyone is as adept as cruising the internet as you, is incorrect.  Your assumption that if someone...nevermind.  I hope you get the idea by now.  You should consider empathizing with their situation rather than dismissing it.



The way we work out problems is finding out what the problems are and then finding ways to work them out, for the maximum number of people possible.  Summarily dismissing someone's idea with "...that sounds good on the surface..." when the situation has only been presented to us for a few days is a bit hasty.  Even Society hasn't locked anything in stone.  Believe it or not, Society has started off in one direction, and through the gentle persuasion of SCA members, changed their path.  Trust me on that.  Been there and done that.

If this seem harsh, I'm sorta sorry.  But it's much milder than it started off being...

Alan

> From: belladonna.difrancia at yahoo.com

> Although I think that sounds reasonable on the surface, Your Grace, 
> 

> there, but it seems to me like a strange sense of entitlement, nonetheless, for 
> you to ask it of me.
> 
> One other point I'd like to make about entitlement is that the newsletter the 
> Society has included with our membership fees has always relied on having free 
> volunteer labor. As a Chronicler for a Barony that does not cover outsourcing 
>
> Belladonna