[Noisebridge-discuss] Poor behavior at Noisebridge (Was fundraising)

[Christie Dudley]

I thought the band already knew a bit about us when they arrived as well.
It's not my taste in music, but I certainly won't criticize them for that.
They knew what kind of event they were coming to.  If I recall, they left
before I did and I didn't see any significant trouble from their direction.

I did, however hear about some astonishingly poorly behaved people out on
the balcony, and I hope whoever was doing that is properly embarrassed.  I
know I'm embarrassed to be associated with them, whether they're members or
not.  It sounds like from Rubin's description there was other idiocy going
on last night as well.

I guess I consider it hugely not excellent to trash a place before we've
even really moved in.  I know folks were giddy last night and it was cool to
have an event in the huge space but that's no excuse.  If you don't treat
our things better than that, then you won't have the cool things we spent
(was it wasted?) all that time building for very long.

Don't ever expect others around you to be more excellent than you.

Christie
---
Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.
    - RFC 1925


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> John Magolske wrote, On 2009/09/18 12:07:
> > Last night at 2169 -- the impromptu accordion/washboard musicians
> > made cool music, but I did not care for the way they played
> > demolition-derby with our roller-chairs, smashing them into each
> > other and the floor...we don't need to add to our collection of broken
> > chairs. I'm concerned that through bringing in wider cross-sections of
> > drunken people to the space we'll see more of this sort of destructive
> > behavior.
>
> > I really do like the inclusive open-door nature of Noisebridge. My
> > hope would be that this open door exist more for people who come with
> > a willingness to contribute or learn in some constructive way, not
> > just hang out, get drunk, and try to pick up a 'hacker' contact high.
>
> Some of the group of kids who came in that were part of the whole
> squeezebox/wash board contingent had very peaked interest about the
> space and Noisebridge as a whole. My understanding was they were invited
> in by a friend of a presenter when they ran into each other in front of
> our building on the street.
>
> A number of them spoke of returning to Noisebridge for some of our many
> classes after they viewed the list off of the wiki through my laptop
> setup on the bar. One gentlemen talked about possibly coming in during
> one of our Tuesday meetings to discuss us hosting a class of his (don't
> remember what the class was as I had this discussion with 4 other people
> I had just met who wanted to do the same).
>
> Every single one of them were also happy to make a donation to the space
> when I pointed out the donation box at the bar and were generally well
> behaved when interacting with me, which is more then I could say about
> others utilizing our free open bar.
>
> If you felt that actions others were were executing in the space were
> not excellent, as a member (and general human being) you have the
> ability to ask them to stop and take it somewhere else.
>
> It would have been awesome if you had stayed later in the night, where
> some of Noisebridge's finest got into a piss fight about what movie we
> should see on the projector, a cock dance on who's laptop got to be
> used, such a major arguathon about who's fault it was that donated Apple
> VGA dongles got lost (with no apology or thank you when it was found),
> and general drunken tomfoolery with the rolly chairs. Such an
> unwelcoming and nerve racking vibe that I eventually packed up and left
> to work at home.
>
> I think playing a washboard and banging on the floor for added
> percussion are beautiful hacks, no contact high needed.
>
> --
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
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