<p>I know a lot of people who felt like there was a serious problem weren't sure how to handle it. I think for me what might be important to gain from the discussion is not Policy but Tools for people who feel disempowered by a situation.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 26, 2011 5:49 PM, "Will Sargent" <<a href="mailto:will.sargent@gmail.com">will.sargent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Shannon Lee <<a href="mailto:shannon@scatter.com">shannon@scatter.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi Noisebridge,<br>>> A couple of months ago, we banned someone for the first time. At the time,<br>>> we said that we were going to have a post-mortem discussion about how that<br>>> went and how it should be handled in the future.<br>
>> I would like to start having that conversation tonight. I hope that we can<br>>> have a productive conversation and that it will lead to some Consensus on<br>>> how to handle this sort of thing in the future.<br>
>> I look forward to seeing you all,<br>> <br>> The only thing I have to say about policy is that it's a trap. Policy<br>> gets you away from the situation itself to an abstraction, it's<br>> inherently an appeal to authority, and it's highly unlikely anyone<br>
> follows it in practice anyway.<br>> <br>> Will.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>
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