I feel this point deserves some discussion. True, they're not intending harm. But just as you wouldn't have an electrician perform open heart surgery, in much the same way you wouldn't put a person in charge of a group when that person was unsuited to leading that group*.
Sabotage through incompetence, no matter how well-meaning, is still sabotage. If the recruitment of new members is among the group's primary goals and the "alienating blowhards" are making this difficult or even impossible, then to me the question transitions from whether to remove them from positions of authority to how to do so with minimum trauma to all involved.
*well OK, plenty of people would, and have, but that doesn't make it a good idea
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I feel this point deserves some discussion. True, they're not intending harm. But just as you wouldn't have an electrician perform open heart surgery, in much the same way you wouldn't put a person in charge of a group when that person was unsuited to leading that group*.
Sabotage through incompetence, no matter how well-meaning, is still sabotage. If the recruitment of new members is among the group's primary goals and the "alienating blowhards" are making this difficult or even impossible, then to me the question transitions from whether to remove them from positions of authority to how to do so with minimum trauma to all involved.
*well OK, plenty of people would, and have, but that doesn't make it a good idea