<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Off-topic, but you are welcome on Slack. Invitation failures are Entropic in nature, not down to intentional exclusion. <div><br></div><div>There was a moment when we switched to Slack (2014) when we needed to be careful how fast we brought people in. </div><div><br></div><div>Now we have 600+ people on our Slack instance and our communication culture is in no danger of changing too quickly due to the influx of a few individuals. (That's both for better and for worse)... <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent from my pocket Apple IIe</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Sparr <<a href="mailto:sparr0@gmail.com">sparr0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>As someone who tried and failed a few times to get invited to the Slack and then gave up, this mailing list has been my only window into goings on at Noisebridge in between my sparse occasions to attend. I am sad to hear that things of such import have been taken almost exclusively to Slack where there is less permanence and less scrutiny.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:22 PM Naomi Most <<a href="mailto:pnaomi@gmail.com">pnaomi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Slack has been our catch-all shade structure (in every possible form of the word "shade") since 2014. We set up the Slack back in 2014 in an effort to take our "dirty laundry" off the public internet.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, I see now that we've lost public accountability and a sense of our own history. We overprivilege people with short reaction times and itchy trigger fingers, and underprivilege people who spend longer to consider what they say. We've done honest conversation a disservice.<br></div></div></div>
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