[Noisebridge-discuss] non-excellent couch behavior

[Kelly]

There is a contingent of reasonable people who viewed this as a prank
with no genuine risk involved.  One of the primary couch-movers was
qualified to assess the safety of the situation.  Now that some
explanations are coming out, I think it's clear that no harm was
intended.

It's really important not to put a damper on the spirit of do-ocracy.
I think that the main issue is the secrecy.  Please DO things!  But
doing things in secret because you know they will piss people off and
thus avoiding discussion is not cool.  And generally I would say that
the first time is free.  Oops!  I walled off the DJ booth.  Turns out
everyone embraced the window entrance.  But if it seems that the
people do not want ceilings to be couched, we should consider verbal
negotiation of ceiling furnishings.

-Kelly

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Alex Perez <aperez at alexperez.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Kelly wrote:
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>> At this point I really don't know if it's a joke or what.  There's
>> been a lot of off-list discussion, and the main bullet points seem to
>> be these:
>>
>> - The couch movers assumed that a couch was what the ceiling was built for
>> - None of the darkroom people were aware of this, including those
>> working on the ceiling
>> - People are concerned about the safety of having the couch up
>> there--maybe we can see some load-bearing calculations?
>> - Some people feel that there was nothing wrong with the couch movers
>> behavior, and others feel really hurt by it.  There doesn't seem to be
>> a clear NB protocol for excellence on this matter.
>
> The protocol shouldn't be for excellence, it should be against general
> douchebaggery, and the douches who put the couch back up there should not
> even attempt to defend their behavior. Have any of them actually tried to?
>
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