I've had a chance to read through the responses and will now make some clarifications and rebuttals.
First, on the issue of whether or not I know how this post looks. The answer is yes. Does it appear childish? I hope so, because that was the intent. I've tried conventional methods of presenting my ideas, but it was sheer luck if they were even noticed, much less responded too. More people are taking notice now, no? They might not like what they see, but they are paying attention.
Was it a good idea? That remains to be seen. Not all ideas are good ones. But the simple fact of the matter is that it was an idea to help a team that's been decaying for months, and someone took the initiative to see it through. Get the point?
It seems that people are quick to go into defensive mode. It is an individual's right to be as active in any project as they choose to be. But that, of course, is applicable in all directions. My interests have diversified, and I have other aspects of my life that put great demands on my time. I need to choose where I spend that time, and choose wisely. I have no problem providing stats or info or other means of participation to a team that participates back. But as I see it, if the majority of the team is ambivalent as to its condition and ambivalent to its ranking, then what does it need stats for? Such a team should have no problem if I was to become just another one of the ambivalent masses. Furthermore, such a team should have no problem with me stopping production altogether. Are you a bad team member if you are ambivalent? No. But I can no longer afford to give you the same amount of time as I have in the past.
I added non-ECCp TA members in my salutation as a courtesy and to invite everyone to respond. First and foremost I would hope that the ECCp team would help itself. It was not the intent for people in other projects to drop what they were doing and start running ECCp. This thread topic may be brazen, but it is not that brazen. I don't think it is a good idea to cross-recruit. It does pop up every once in a while in all projects, mainly from newer DC participants who don't know any better. These instances should be handled with polite discouragement. It is an unwritten rule that we don't cross-recruit; but the thing about unwritten rules is, that if you are new and nobody tells you about them, you have no way of knowing until you break one of them.
Also, I thought my first post was vile enough. I didn't think it would be topped by inter-project bickering. Those of you with project oppression complexes and those with project paranoia complexes need to sit down and work out your issues. This thread is probably not the best place to do that.
Finally, you may be asking yourself who do I think I am that I can make demands on anybody? Well, I am nobody. And I demand nothing of anyone. I just serve notice that my participation will stop if certain criteria occur. I made that notice public in case anyone felt the desire to take some initiative. I could just have easily waited until we fell to 6th place and said "Seeya!"
I make no apologies. My services are mine to give as I see fit, and I have given them freely and without constraint. I just chose a melodramatic way to say that if the ECCp team wants to grow, it is going to have to be through efforts beyond my own. I will continue to do as I have done in the past, until that day arrives that we fall, should it happen at all.
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