Two Different Things
1) There's Friends of RPOL (something that was legally necessary for us to open accounts to collect donations/funds)
2) There's Friends of RPOL (this board) - people who love this site and want to help, whether by suggestions, donations of time and skills, donation of funds, or all of these.
-- 1) This organization is responsible for governing the way that we collect/hold/distribute funds. All this has made me think a bit more. I want a secondary 'rep' on these accounts. The paypal account that currently has funds intended for this site is linked to one of my personal credit cards. The bank account Friends of RPOL (US Bank) is linked to my tax id number. NOW -- with that being said, it WILL be someone I trust, personally, who is named the secondary. Right now, if I was hit by a bus today, the funds would be lost. I don't like that one little bit. I'll type up some info directing that should something happen to me, the funds in these accounts should be immediately transferred to either woof or johnb's account. (Guys, if you would give me some information as to how I can send the funds to you in the event of my death or incapacitation AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, I would appreciate it.)
NOW ... as long as these accounts are linked to me personally, no matter who decides what, ONLY someone I trust personally is going to be acceptable to me to have access to my credit card info and/or any banking info that I hold. Off the top of my head, there's a select few here that I would trust to be that secondary -- dollsteak being one, and possibly a couple of others. (No offense meant to anyone else, but I don't know alot of those here except thru this board.) Does that make it an 'inner circle' (how I hate that *@#$&% stupid term)? I don't care.
In other words, the whole darn site could vote to have Dag made a US rep/salesman/collector/whatever, and he still wouldn't get access to any account that is linked to me. Same goes for the other 3 at the meeting. They could vote him in, and I STILL wouldn't accept it. (I would simply transfer the funds I held over to woof or another RPOL collection point and walk away.)
2) This group of people who want to help out however we can holds no special status. If any of them have concerns about how I'm collecting the money or reporting it to woof and the others who are GM's on this board, I'm more than happy to let them have their say in whatever issue they have an opinion. However, the help that they give is totally up to woof and his designated representatives. There is no special status to being a 'Friend of RPOL' -- except that, to me, I'm extremely happy to know that others like this site and want to say thanks by helping out. Is that an 'inner circle'? Well, it does represent a bunch of people that I'm proud to play with.
RPOL is woof's site. Woof has accepted help from others, whether in editing/monitoring/picture editing, whatever.
Whether any of that makes sense or not, my general conclusion is that those who say that we're looking too deep into this are absolutely right.
Woof, you can count on me to help this site however I can, so long as it continues to be run in the same wonderfully friendly fashion. You can count on me to report donations sent to the accounts that I have established, to hold them in said accounts until required, and to pass them along in a timely manner.
If ANY of you have any doubts about that, I'll be happy to pass along the funds currently there, close the accounts, and go back to my games. That goes for the members of 'FRPOL' as designated for the bank account John opened, or any of the GM's on this site.
And if you're willing to trust me with the responsibility of doing that, and the donating members are willing to trust me, I'll be happy to keep doing it. In that event, dollsteak, gimme a yell and I'll give you the account names/password AND a check to use to clear out the funds in the checking account in the event of my death/incapacitation. If you don't want to be the secondary, I'll consider other alternatives.
Dang, by the time I got finished reading all this stuff, I was so confused I don't even know how this argument/dust up got started or why. But please ... don't try to explain it to me. I have a headache already.