[Noisebridge-discuss] game night

[Zach .]

I was there that night, partly working on my sound system and I
definitely didn't feel like this was partying.  There were some
regulars to the space and all people that had been there before and
they were drinking some beer and listening to music at a reasonable
volume (on the two small white speakers).  There was someone blasting
techno when I came in actually (on the giant speakers by the sowing
area) which continued on all morning.  

There definitely wasn't any
dancing going on and other than being late at night, nothing too
different from regular NB activity.  Nothing was damaged and if
something was knocked over I'm sure it was an accident and promptly
picked up.  Andy's suggestions make a lot of sense.  If people are
being a bother I would attempt to introduce myself and interact on a
friendly basis and ask the volume to be turned down or whatever else is
an issue.

Zach

--- On Fri, 4/22/11, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

From: Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] game night
To: "Evan Bangham" <ebangham at gmail.com>
Cc: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Date: Friday, April 22, 2011, 10:45 PM

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 03:30:17AM -0700, Evan Bangham wrote:
> There was some youths, drinking beers and partying at the space on Friday
> April 22 from 1:30am to 3:00am. Its my understanding that noisebridge
> shouldn't be used as a damn night club,

Definitely, I think we're all in agreement on that.

> and that bringing a bunch of people
> who are unknown to noisebridge into the space just to drink beers, wrestle
> with each other and be generally obnoxious is not excellent.
> 
> These guys were stumbling around, knocking shit over, perusing all the
> electronics and doing who knows fucking what. Seriously, fuck that shit.

Agreed, that sucks.  When I see behavior like that, I like to introduce
myself to the offenders and try to get their read on the situation.
Good questions for example are --

"Hi, I'm Andy!  I don't think we've met?"

"Is this your first time at Noisebridge?  It is?  Cool, can I show you
around?"

"How'd you hear about Noisebridge?  We're always on the lookout for new
members who want to work on interesting problems, so I like to keep
track of where people hear about us!"

"Hey guys, please don't hang out on the fire escape, because the cops
like to make a ruckus if they see people hanging out there."

Simply interacting with people on a one-to-one basis can often defuse
seriously douchey behavior.

-andy
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