Aureantes' Lair

[The following is a personal email I sent tonight that happens to fall into the most-recent topic at hand, and to form part of my overall manifesto against people trying to maintain their online group franchises without any consideration for the actual people within said group, when it's admittedly formed for a social contact and identity support purpose in the first place.  I.e., "networking" with all members' advertising restricted to that which does them no material benefit....great way to help promote the survival of one's species....]

Okay, I am rather pissed with your fellow Branch Head's attitude, and I'm wary how representative it is of policies and attitudes from "above"....not that I'm a selfish money-grubbing person, but I really really (just check my recent LJ entries) detest people trying to restrict others from getting any attention to their own work and endeavours outside the group/organization per se.  It's been pissing me off for a while, and I've been venting on it most vocally to my friends, and then something like this comes up in *here*....naturally enough, from a (nearly) middle-aged, brusque and by-the-bylaws *person* who is probably a technical Elder of something-something....sheesh, if you know me atall you know that I hate the type...

Anyhow, just wanting a response from you as to how much of a problem situation this is, for a person who really can't afford atall to do everything in life either pro bono or without a right to publicity. I have gotten in trouble before with groups for asserting that there's a difference between spam and mentioning relevant outside things, even when they weren't for profit. Arbitrary rules piss me off, especially in a time and place where less and less can people afford to spend voluntary time and energy without due recompense. That's the way of the corporate slave-sucking world--we ought to be better than that.

At any rate, that's my rant for the evening/rest of the week, and I'd like to hear your thoughts, as someone who will not automatically dismiss me as a meretriciously trolling upstart.

Aurey

(whose *own* website, as it stands, is right here...and whose local (Greater Chicago) artists networking group is right here--the Starving Artists' Forum...)