I fully understand that, believe me, in my other life, when an MD I did a lot of voluntary work in different poor countries and I depended on voulenteers, still I always got complaints from all sides even if we were saving lives, nobody was happy. So, I have been there. I was also officers of some corporations and our main cost was labor, because we could not "get" voulenteers.
But, there are remedies for that as well, one, which I learned to do VERY EARLY, was to DELEGATE. I heared from other officers, "is really Charles that has to make the decision".
Also, I believe you/they can get more help or voulenteers. I have offered my time in the past with no response and know that if many collectors were asked to do just one or two small jobs, but quite specific, and those people felt that they did not have to go up too far up the latter for their decisions to be accepted, you could easily find an army of "small" individuals just doing something valuable that will not take too much time. I believe, and really hope I am not wrong, most of us would feel very good about doing something for "our club".
Take the Caribbean, you have many experts in the different island/countries. Give 1-3 expert a country, or two, and a protocol, and let them decide if a submission is appropriate, if is not a fake, if the casino really exists, etc and 48-72 hrs to decide. You could have the Cuba Casinos free of "fakes", which it is now, the Dominican Casinos free of whore houses and promo chips, and the chips without names would be in the correct casinos. THAT is information.
I fully understand your point. But, even with the best of intentions if you create an entity to give chippers the correct information and fill that entity with misinformation, don't you loose the entire purpose of your efforts??
There is a saying in medicine, "The only thing worse than "no information" is misinformation; it can cost you lives- Obviously nobody is going to die here but, for many, almost as if....
So, I feel your pain and that is why is so hard for me to put pressure on anything that I myself cannot do, but if I never mentioned or complained about this, how would the DR Casino list would look like in 1-2 years, when more tourists visit more whore houses than casinos and want their name shown in the guide. Probably more than the present 9% or so we have now.
So, yes, I feel their pain, but if you can use a corporate or Army mentality, get more help and delegate responsabilities, fewer people would complain of too much work and the product the club would offer would be so nice and clean! Have 3 people or whatever in charge of 7 and those 7 in charge of 10, at some point those few people on top would do a lot less and the product would be incredible.
I think you guys under estimate the lowly members' desire to participate and help make the club better. Three decision makers do not allow things to get done in time.; Ask and you will receive, I do not think I am wrong about our members, including myself.
Still, I fully understand where you are coming from, but there are solutions. Thanks for the work YOU do,
Luis
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