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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">About 3 hours after they came in to
existence, I chatted with Tom about the IRC killbots and we agreed
they were over the top - they were neutered shortly after. <br>
<br>
As such, I personally think they're not that interesting to
discuss.<br>
<br>
--Casey<br>
<br>
On 3/14/14, 2:57 PM, hep wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">So epsas (who i know and quite like, but that isn't
the point) responded to a technical question invoking a movie
that involved torture, rape, and fecal fetish play, and you are
asking what the problem with that is? and for the record, one
can be minority, and queer, and still engage in abusive,
exploitative, or unacceptable behavior towards other oppressed
groupings of people.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Jake <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jake@spaz.org" target="_blank">jake@spaz.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">while
we're having a nice productive discussion about solving
problems at noisebridge </sarcasm> i'll reply to more
of your post:<br>
<br>
1> your mockery is counterproductive and makes me not
want to keep participating<br>
<br>
2> don't fucking talk to me about urgent, or long boring
hours of slow process. I pushed my proposals for months
before Tom made me give up.<br>
<br>
3> so i guess this makes you a defender of something that
you think sucks, rather than take this opportunity to
suggest better behaviour?<br>
<br>
4> fuck you<br>
<br>
5> the specific IRC incident to which I refer was when
epsas, an esteemed hacker and network engineer who primarily
enjoys noisebridge through IRC because of geography,
accurately answered a technical question about a network
topology with the the words "human centipede", suggesting
that the data packets were flowing from one computer to the
other.<br>
<br>
Tom kickbanned him and, when asked why, said that epsas "put
me off my lunch". For the record, epsas is a minority and
queer, and tom is literally hitler.<br>
<br>
6> i went to plenty of weekly meetings to talk about this
and other things before Tom turned me off of the process by
unilaterally blocking my proposal and effectively refusing
to discuss it further.<br>
<br>
no response is requested from you until you have understood
everything i've said AND where i'm coming from on this
issue.<br>
<br>
-jake
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Al Sweigart wrote:<br>
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1) Tom, someone at Noisebridge has accused of being
tyrant and abusing your power. Achievement unlocked.<br>
2) Jake, the queue of consensus items has consistently
been pretty long. At the meetings other items have
always taken precedent. I like your wording change and
am in<br>
favor of it, but I don't think it's urgent. Don't
attribute to malice what can be attributed to hours and
hours of slow, boring process.<br>
<br>
3) No one owes anyone compromise or explanation when
they block an item. It has never been part of the de
facto consensus policy and often the opposite is the
case at<br>
Noisebridge. (This is why I think consensus sucks.)<br>
<br>
4) Jake: It is, in fact, not April.<br>
<br>
5) The IRC channel has been a hive of trolls and
villainy. It's been a long time coming to boot people
who can't stop themselves from calling other people
racist and<br>
homophobic slurs. I don't see how Noisebridge's
Anti-Harassment policy that was passed with consensus
doesn't apply to the #noisebridge IRC channel.<br>
<br>
6) A good time to talk to Tom and everyone else about
your four month old proposal would be at a weekly
meeting. He's been to plenty of those recently in the
last<br>
four months. You have not.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Hannah Grimm <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dharlette@gmail.com" target="_blank">dharlette@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
Jake,<br>
A few notes on what you've said:<br>
<br>
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1. On February 4th, a proposal by Tom to require that we
NOT change consensus items between discussing them and
passing them was passed. This seems to be a
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direct acknowledgment by Tom that the changes made
to past consensus items as they were being discussed
& passed was not working, and an attempt to fix the<br>
issue in the future. In short, Tom heard your
complaints and made sure that wouldn't happen to anyone
else in the future.<br>
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2. Based on the email you forwarded, it looks like Tom
was willing to meet with you to discuss this. To me, that
looks like Tom was replying and being
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reasonable about why he disagreed with your
proposal. In short, the exact opposite of what you're
claiming here.<br>
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3. Tom blocking a proposal has nothing to do with "Tom
the Secretary." "Tom the Secretary" doesn't do much. He
cashes checks, and manages the github repo.
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That's about it. All of the actions you're unhappy
about are just things that Tom-the-member does, and he
doesn't have any greater ability to stonewall<br>
you than any other member does.<br>
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4. It's unclear to me what about the IRC ban-bot bothers
you. Is it the fact that you're not allowed to say slurs?
Is the inability to call someone a nigger
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or a cunt really that much of an issue? Because
that all sounds pretty reasonable to me.<br>
As a note to everyone, it's important to remember that
NO member of Noisebridge is obliged to be your friend,
answer your emails, or respond to you. If you try<br>
to communicate with someone, and they won't reply,
that's generally a good sign that they don't want to
talk to you. Our anti-harassment policy specifically<br>
lists "persistent uninvited communication" as a form
of harassment. <br>
<br>
Hannah<br>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Jake <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jake@spaz.org"
target="_blank">jake@spaz.org</a>> wrote:<br>
An open letter to Tom Lowenthal, actually
intended for the discuss list:<br>
<br>
I replied to the attached email and got nothing
in response. This is after REPEATED attempts to get
you to talk about your objections and seek a<br>
common ground, talk about friendly amendments,
or any progress at all.<br>
<br>
I accuse you of acting in bad faith in the
consensus process, which is even worse because you're
"Secretary of Noisebridge".<br>
<br>
It also reflects poorly on noisebridge in
general that people were not more demanding of an
explanation from you when you blocked my proposal,
with<br>
no willingness for discussion, despite the fact
that the proposal sought things that seemed to be
universally needed as improvements.<br>
<br>
For reference, here is the original proposal
MADE IN NOVEMBER!!!<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-November/040268.html"
target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-November/040268.html</a><br>
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mentioned in this thread as well:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-December/041463.html"
target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2013-December/041463.html</a><br>
<br>
It is now April. Tom, you effectively
short-circuited my efforts to improve noisebridge and
come to meetings, single-handedly. I can understand<br>
why Lee Sonko went crazy. You are a tyrant!
You abuse your powers without shame!<br>
<br>
It was also disturbing to see you using your
Operator powers to kickban people in IRC for offending
you, and caring not at all when the entire<br>
channel erupted in protest of your unwelcome
"enforcement" actions.<br>
<br>
The discuss list has been buzzing with activity
to address concerns about making noisebridge a better
place. I was working hard toward those goals<br>
until you blocked with no explanation. What the
fuck is your motivation?<br>
<br>
This post may seem directed toward Tom, but i
have no reason to expect a productive response.
Instead I ask that anyone reading this who wants to<br>
improve noisebridge ask themselves and each
other, what do we do when someone unilaterally
obstructs progress in this way?<br>
<br>
I will point out that despite specifically
asking for concerns or constructive criticism to my
proposal each time I posted it to the list, NO ONE<br>
emailed me with objections or concerns,
INCLUDING TOM.<br>
<br>
-jake<br>
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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Tom Lowenthal wrote:<br>
<br>
Hi Jake,<br>
<br>
I disagree with your proposal as written,
but I'm sure that there's<br>
middle ground to be found. I don't think
that this is going to be a<br>
productive email conversation. It'd be
much better in person. A<br>
Tuesday meeting probably isn't the easiest
or best time. How about<br>
getting together another time to try and
hash things out?<br>
<br>
-Tom<br>
<br>
On 22 December 2013 20:04, Jake <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jake@spaz.org"
target="_blank">jake@spaz.org</a>> wrote:<br>
tom,<br>
<br>
i feel a bit frustrated by the lack
of progress made on the issue of<br>
noisebridge access policy since your
blocking.<br>
<br>
i spelled out my proposal very
clearly and showed up to discuss it, after<br>
soliciting commentary on the list
for a number of weeks.<br>
<br>
i am not satisfied with the current
state of noisebridge access policy. I<br>
am open to input from you on moving
forward but so far i haven't heard<br>
anything from you but a simple
block.<br>
<br>
please engage with me and describe
what about my proposal is acceptable to<br>
you and what is not acceptable, so
that we can make as much progress as<br>
possible. I believe that if you are
acting in good faith that you will help<br>
to facilitate progress and not just
inhibit.<br>
<br>
-jake<br>
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