On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Jake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org">jake@spaz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
a while ago it seemed that a certain person had stolen it, because someone<br>
thought they had seen that person selling a microscope on the street and<br>
we noticed it was missing. It seems that person must have been selling a<br>
different stolen microscope, because it apparently wasn't this one.<br></blockquote><div><br>I appreciate you posting this, when you could have also just not said anything publicly on the list. But I don't think you're being entirely honest with yourself or others when you give that as the most likely conclusion. <br>
<br>I think being suddenly vague about who it was that was accused and who did the accusing, and then concluding that, well, heck, the only explanation must be that the possibly-imaginary microscope must have been stolen from someone *else*, is just compounding the earlier error. We have to be as honest as we can with ourselves.<br>
<br>Here's how I would describe what happened:<br><br>"a while ago a lot of us believed that Jay had stolen it, because Duncan<br>
thought they had seen that person selling something from Noisebridge on the street and<br>
we noticed the microscope was missing. We screwed up, probably because lots of us were<br>mad at Jay for another reason entirely."<br><br>If we're not honest about the mistakes we made, we're going to risk repeating them. People find themselves mobbing someone they don't like or who did something wrong with lots of extra accusations, and talking themselves into believing the worst of them.<br>
<br>I'm personally trying to work myself up to apologizing to Jay -- we all have his email address. <br><br>We should also talk about this at the meeting. Some of our systems for preventing this kind of mistake worked, and some of them didn't, and we can always improve them.<br>
<br>d.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
-jake<br>
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