<p dir="ltr">I agree but for noisebridge to work right and for this to have not happened. It is simple. Be more involved. Communicate more. Made sure someone would be there. It is hard but with a community like this it requires massive efforts and slacking a bit puts us in this situation. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 26, 2014 11:52 AM, "Rachel McConnell" <<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com">rachel@xtreme.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
OK about a consensus item that passed, as Lee's ban did, without the full agreement of the membership - as this obviously did. How does it get un-done by consensus? The don't-ban-Lee faction screwed up; fair enough; there were Reasons but whatever. But now that it's on the books, it can't be removed except also by consensus, and the do-ban-Lee faction can just be more careful about coming to the meetings to block the un-ban.<br>
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If the point of consensus decision making is for everyone to agree - at least enough to accept a solution, even if they don't really like it - you cannot say that consensus has succeeded here. The process happened, but consensus (the dictionary use, as opposed to the Noisebridge-specific jargon use) does not actually exist.<br>
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Al, Ron, Tom, Jake A, everyone: what is your thinking on this? Imagine, if you will, that it was Al who got banned, and through a fluke, everyone who would otherwise have blocked it had something else they needed to do that night, and each knew that everyone else would block so it wasn't vital that they, personally, were there.<br>
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Rachel1.0<br>
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