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

[metta]

i think we agree.  my thinking is, if noisebridge is a do-acracy, why
not just paint your own thing over the "smoke DMT" graffiti?

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:47 -0800, Leif Ryge wrote:
> 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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