[Noisebridge-discuss] On a more [drama] note: a [drama] statement to NB Discuss
Eric Vinyl
vinyl876 at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 27 18:38:16 UTC 2012
Is this the 8th step?
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> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:25:51 -0800
> From: justinsfca at gmail.com
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] On a more serious note: a personal
> statement to NB Discuss
>
> I've recently received an email from an individual who was kind enough
> to provide me proactive suggestions in the way I go about communicating
> with people on the discuss list. I want to formally apologize if
> anything I've said has personally offended or upset anyone over the
> discuss list. Minor trolling is OK here and there; being an asshole is
> not. I aspire to be a noble person, and I can only say on my behalf is
> that like everybody else, I have really bad days and asshole
> tendencies, and more than half the time I'd like to give people the
> benefit of the doubt that I'm not really serious and to take what I say
> with a grain of salt. But after reading what people have been saying
> about myself and people who I consider to be my friends on the "85"
> page, in addition to my perception of destructive and harsh criticism
> towards me in person, I'm openly admitting that it's sort of starting
> to take its toll on me and I'm also publicly admitting that I feel kind
> of hurt and offended by all of the cruel things people have to say
> about me, my friends, or hell why stop there, people I don't even know,
> better yet people I do know and actually don't like. It's so easy for
> people to be irrational and fulfill their needs for temporary self
> satisfaction, yet it's a lot more difficult for people to be rational
> and fulfill their needs for a lifelong experience of success in
> whatever it is that they do. I feel that all of this public defamation
> might have a lot to do with why I have been acting so strange and
> distant lately, or why I've been randomly lashing out over the internet
> or in person. I do however value this space quite a lot, and by no
> means do I want to say I'm "emo-quitting" Noisebridge because a handful
> of people want to go ahead and be jerks; the amazing and awesome people
> significantly outnumber them. It's important for me to express that I
> don't want to give into what these assholes (they're not "oogles",
> they're assholes) have to say about me, because all that will lead to
> is me starting to behave and act just like one of them, and
> reallllllly, is that who I really want to become? A miserable troll
> queen? Didn't think so... Besides, I have a great abundance of
> information along with ideas that I would like to share and add to the
> Human Resources binder that I'm pretty confident will positively
> benefit this already profound hackerspace and how I factor into it.
> Everyone here is really good at doing something, or really enjoys doing
> certain things, and HR and all of its field-related topics are things I
> was sort of born to do, and Noisebridge is entirely in need of it. I'm
> actually really excited about this because I'm going to make it happen,
> and people who come here all the time will be totally grateful for it,
> that I can promise you. It's a marvelous phenomena when perspicacious
> individuals like myself finally stop wallowing in that great void of
> vulnerable uncertainty and realize a purpose/opportunity within their
> life and actually go for it. With that, I conclude by saying I really
> do need to take Miloh up on his suggestion in getting a blog, and thank
> all of you for listening to/reading my meaningless rants. I'm actually
> quite surprised how many people have already said to me that they do.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Justin Patrick Doer-r
>
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