Your note asks one question, and I'll begin by answering that.
You asked
"Have you seen us acting in such a way?" No, nor was I suggesting that I have.
I have heard people saying that if we just had a few more rules, a bit more clarity in the rules, everything would be OK. I am proposing a way that I believe is better, a way that is about modeling the behavior we value, and communicating our beliefs and values through stories rather than procedures.
You speculated about the source of my concern. It comes from my belief in what is better and I am writing into what is essentially an information vacuum about how things will be done in the future. I'm writing to influence that future, not out of fear or a desire for power, but out of hope and a desire to help.
I read most of the rest of your posting as devaluing my suggestions, mostly through suggesting that they are naive and do not reflect a full understanding of how hard and awful working here needs to be. I simply do not agree with that theory of how things are best accomplished.
I do not want more power, nor do I want authority over anyone else. What I want is a situation where we respectfully listen to each other and work our way forward to better and better performance. I want that solely because it is the kind of organization I like to participate in and the kind of organization that I believe to be most effective.
I'd like to address one other thing you said:
I know people want to pick and choose the fun jobs like planning and designing and building the environment. Cool. It's nice that people want to help out, and the ideas ARE wonderful, and what about what NCI needs? Yes, you are NCI, and you want to express yourself. But if nobody does the accounting, or goes around ensuring that a poster works, that TP pads operate, that landmark givers function, that the freebie dispensers deliver, then NCI falls apart.
Well, y'know what? People do want to do fun jobs. And people will do jobs that they consider fun. People even find things to be fun that may well surprise you and me. I actually know people in RL (but not SL unfortunately) who enjoy accounting. I know people in SL who enjoy scripting and who could have fun making sure that TP pads and landmark givers function. I happen to be one of those. That doesn't sound like what you call "sh*t" work at all. It sounds kind of interesting.
An organization thrives when people have things to do that they consider challenging and fun. Current organizational wisdom is not that people have to do "sh*t" work and jobs that they don't enjoy. The skill in building an organization is in finding ways to create jobs that are fulfilling and valuable to the people who do them.
And conversely, especially in a volunteer organization, people will not do jobs that they do not enjoy and will not do jobs that someone important considers a "sh*t" job.
I've been doing the best I can here to describe my beliefs about what it will take to get the many creative people in NCI moving in a common and positive direction. I think it has to do with respect and leadership, not with a concentration on duty and sh*t.
I understand from what you have said here, and from conversations that we have had in private, that you really do not value what I'm saying. I don't have a clear understanding of whether you are speaking for the board on that, or not. It doesn't really matter. In the end, decisions will come from the board, and things will happen. We'll all see what they are and what impact they have. And we'll respond to what happens. With any luck we'll make forward progress. I hope so.
At this moment, I think I'm done talking about this. Thanks to all who have read my thoughts.