Microsoft MVPs

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:58:31 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

This a**hole is NOT an MVP!

The Real Truth MVP wrote:
There is none.

Ah yes, very true, but then the status of MVP has been diluted by real
MVPs that choose to hide. You can't check on their credentials because
they chose to hide. Gee, would you trust a doctor, dentist, or any
other self-claimed professional whose credentials you could not certify?
That MVPs can hide so their credentials are not public (which has
nothing to do with divulging private information) pretty much renders
the who concept worthless. Anyone could claim they are an MVP, like
Patricia here claiming to be one (after nymshifting away from her
pcbutts1 moniker). You don't need to go ego-stroking your status to
announce your MVP status to other MVPs. That ego-stroking is to
announce yourself to non-MVPs in a newsgroup (i.e., to the general
populace that visit there). To the public, if your self-claimed MVP
credentials cannot be traced to those that provide that certification
then you don't have those credentials as far as the public is concerned.
Unless the status of MVP is traceable, it means nothing.

I've looked at mvps.org. Didn't find anyone named "Bear" there. Looked
at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx. There are
couple of "bear" names with that substring but nothing that would match
on the "pa" part of your moniker. So just how *we* non-MVPs visiting
the newsgroups know YOU aren't yet another troll pretending to be an
MVP? We can't so the claim to be an MVP cannot be verified which means
the MVP title is not only worthless but possibly deliberately
misleading.


His name, which he often uses in his messages (or else I wouldn't tell
you), is Robear Dyer. PA Bear is sort of a nickname. Go back to
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx and look for
Robear Dyer, which you will find there.

I can also personally vouch for his being an MVP, because I've several
times met him at MVP events at Microsoft in Seattle.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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