<p>I understand he is also responsible for lots of creepy scrawled words and images on the walls, most notable & recurring phrase being 'smoke dmt'.� It kind of looks like the stuff they always have on movie sets where a psychopath has made his lair.� This kind of decoration seems most unexcellent to me, primarily because it helps to create the 'skeezy flophouse' environment and helps to destroy the 'productive workplace' environment.</p>
<p>R.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 31, 2010 1:56 PM, "Rachel McConnell" <<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com">rachel@xtreme.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I have not met this guy and I have only heard rumors. My understanding<br>
> is that he does the following undesirable things:<br>> <br>> * shows up to the space scarily high<br>> * sleeps there<br>> * takes things from people's shelves<br>> * leaves dirty clothes in the "clothing swap" area he created<br>
> <br>> (There may be other things I don't know of)<br>> <br>> None of those are excellent things. But if he stopped doing them, would<br>> the man himself be a problem? I'd rather focus effort on stopping the<br>
> problem behaviors. That seems much more of a Noisebridge way of doing<br>> things than trying to ban him.<br>> <br>> Aestetix, I think the message that these things are not acceptable will<br>> come across much better if many people in the community talk to him<br>
> rather than just one. Nevertheless I encourage you to implement your<br>> idea of trying to become his friend, as that can only produce good<br>> results for us all.<br>> <br>> Generally it's hard to criticize someone to their face. But like<br>
> cleaning up after ourselves, it has to be done to maintain the<br>> Noisebridge we know and love.<br>> <br>> Rachel<br>> <br>> Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson wrote:<br>>> On Oct 31, 2010, at 2:46 AM, aestetix aestetix wrote:<br>
>>> So, here's my actual take on it. I think there's a communication breakdown, where a lot<br>>>> people think "we" have "attempted" to "talk" to him, and "failed."<br>
> Instead of uniting<br>>>> against him, why not have the community ask a member (of the<br>> community, not necessarily<br>>>> Noisebridge) who we all trust to take all of our ideas and have a<br>
> private chat with him?<br>>>> That way, rather than having a bunch of people all hit him with<br>> complaints, we have one<br>>>> person who's filtering them all, and in the process learns this guy's<br>
> viewpoint and maybe<br>>>> even forms a friendship with him. I think that would be much more<br>> effective than arguing<br>>>> about whether to exclude him or not, and it would be easier to<br>> connect with him that way.<br>
>>><br>>> <br>>> Are you hereby volunteering?<br>>> <br>>> Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Dr.rer.nat.<br>>> Postdoctoral researcher<br>>> <a href="mailto:mik@math.stanford.edu">mik@math.stanford.edu</a><br>
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