[Noisebridge-discuss] Missing Green Bike /w Red Grips.

Leif Ryge leif at synthesize.us
Thu Feb 3 18:47:45 UTC 2011


On 02/03/2011 10:04 AM, Albert Sweigart wrote:
> The two common problems with any system of rules: having much too much
> or none at all.
>
> Don't smoke on the fire escape. Don't download stuff over bittorrent
> when there are a lot of other people there. Don't write "Smoke DMT" on
> the wall. These aren't oppressive mandates of bureaucratic red tape,
> they're obvious demands of basic politeness that come with a shared
> space. We don't need rules for the people who'd follow them anyway, we
> need them for the people who don't follow them (and blow off anyone
> who protests about their behavior).

I think that "be excellent to eachother" covers all "obvious demands of 
basic politeness" clearly enough.

Do you seriously want Noisebridge to agree to have a "don't write 'smoke 
DMT' on the wall" rule?

If so, I would appreciate your answers to (or at least your thoughts 
about) these questions:
1) Do we need a list of everything that is not OK to write on the walls?
2) What process do you envision for adding to or removing things from 
the list?
3) Given the existence of such a list, would it be unreasonable to 
assume that anything not yet on the list is OK to write on the walls? 
(Why or why not?)

Thanks,
~leif

> We talk about excellent and unexcellent behavior all the time. Why
> don't we come together and agree on a conservative set of them and
> write them down? We're so concerned with wasting time and energy on
> the overhead of rule enforcement, or that Noisebridge will fall down a
> slippery slope into some kind of rule-crazy nannystate. But how much
> time do we waste with this drama?
>
> Passing the conch shell...
>
> -Al





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