[Noisebridge-discuss] game night

[Evan Bangham]

There was only 1 or at most 2 regulars out of the 8 or so people in the
party. I have no idea who was blasting the techno, didn't even hear it my
self, but I did hear the music the party was playing. They were indeed
roughhousing around, guess you didn't notice it, but they slammed into the
wall by the classrooms a couple of times. They also left mexican food
wrappers and stuff all over the classroom.

If all the people were doing was talking and listening to music with some
drinking I wouldn't give much of a shit, but that's not the way things went
down. I was working in the room right next to them. From my perspective
these people were using noisebridge as a party spot, and not using it in any
'community' oriented parting way. I was working in the room right next to
them, so that's where I'm coming from. I remember asking Zach if he had any
knowledge of who was partying and he said no. The point is they pissed me
off and I guess I won't be shy about expressing it to people in the future.
Not that I want to be some kinda of tyrant.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Zach . <organic_unity at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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