Quote from: wmXchange on September 28, 2012, 10:04:04 PM

In my opinion, we (the Bitcoin users) need some representatives to be there for us and represent our interest in front of governments, press, banking system, other industries. Otherwise, the next time when New York Times want to cover a Bitcoin story regarding the use of bitcoins in drug deals, lets just go all the members of this board to speak out for Bitcoin with that reporter and see how that will be of any good to Bitcoin and to its legitimate users

I hate to lend credibility to this thread by responding to it but there is another point to make here:

The reporters are already asking the people involved in the foundation this crap at least sometimes, sometimes they ask _worse_ people but a key difference is that when they just ask them normally they're getting their personal/company positions. If the community doesn't like what they say? "It's my Opinion. Fuck you." When people speak on behalf of the foundation there will at least be some accountability to the community of people who have chosen to become members and pressure to hold a consistent, considered position, which is tempered somewhat from their personal and professional 'color'. I think this moderating effect can be as improvement an important as the reduction in talking to the wrong people.