In all due respect to my friends Kevin and Paul, these discussions, though tedious at times, relate to the once a year election of a board to this site. Clearly the who and how of this selection process has little to do with geocacaching and more to do about what the members expect of this site. To the extent that the new board will no doubt have to at least try to come up with guidelines so this crap doesn't happen again, then it's relevant, to a "t." I think it's not unfair to ask prospective board members if they feel the elegibility issue and subsequent response to inquiries was handled both fairly and within some stated guidelines.

If the response is that these decisions were made only by Rick, then that's the end of it.

In my world, decisions made by the judges are supported by facts and rules so maybe it's just my profession driving my curiosity.