[Noisebridge-discuss] Upstairs door latch mechanism?
jim
jim at well.com
Sat Feb 11 09:15:59 UTC 2012
a lot of people use the buzzer. most of them do so out
of habit. a fair number do so because they're coming to
some event. i recognize some of them as regular users of
the space.
i'm curious to know how you get in without buzzing.
people are different; seems better not to judge, at least
not right away.
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 00:56 -0800, Christopher Maujean wrote:
> It seems to me, given the tons of information on the wiki, and on the
> mailing lists, that using the buzzer is an immediate reason for
> suspicion. I've been to the space a few times, and I have never used
> the buzzer.
>
> --Christopher
>
> On Feb 10, 2012 8:53 PM, "jim" <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
>
> It seems you're presuming things about persons using
> the buzzer. How many people who use the buzzer should be
> let in? Seems like "most", to me, based on the people
> I've seen come in that way.
>
> How many people shouldn't? How can anyone say? Who
> knows who might "come around" to a hacker's head?
> And if they don't? What's bad?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 17:12 -0800, Jake wrote:
> > This is exactly why it's easier to turn someone away by not
> buzzing the
> > gate open, than it is to let them in and come all the way up
> the stairs
> > and then try to turn them back.
> >
> > If someone presses the button at the gate and nothing
> happens, they have
> > no one to be mad at, and they have not already gone up two
> flights of
> > stairs toward their destination. No big deal, they will
> proceed to some
> > other place to hang out.
> >
> > -jake
> >
> > David Estes wrote:
> > > Right, and I am decidedly /not/ a big guy. Imagine me
> trying to have
> > > that conversation, but on the street outside the gate. I
> don't think it
> > > would have gone well.
> >
> > Rachel Lyra wrote:
> > I've done this, at 3am. someone sort of followed me there
> from a party
> > (incidentally one where they had to eject one of our
> homeless residents
> > for drunkenness). I'm a smallish female, although i usually
> wear baggy
> > clothes and boots. It wasn't fun but it worked out ok. I'm
> pretty
> > assertive though.
> >
> > Since our constituency of preferred users includes many
> people who would
> > be uncomfortable with this type of confrontation, we
> probably want to
> > help deal with that! I think that the more complicated it
> looks to get
> > in, the easier it would be to tell a person trying to follow
> you in that
> > they are not authorized for entry. By creating a ridiculous
> rube
> > goldberg of Entry we can create a Flying Spaghetti Monster
> type
> > authority to appeal to when denying someone entry. THE
> SCIENCE-DEITIES
> > OF ENTRY DENY YOU! I AM BUT THEIR HUMBLE SERVANT!
> >
> > R.
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