[Noisebridge-discuss] sean mediation

[Rubin Abdi]

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First off Sean Cusack is a great guy and not the same Sean outline in
John Withers' previous email. The only negative thing that can be held
against Sean Cusack is the fact that he doesn't grace Noisebridge
anymore with his awesome presence and amazing projects. :)

Sean Cusack wrote, On 2012-06-13 15:19:
> Um. I sincerely hope there is at least one other Sean at the space 
> as I haven't been there in a long time. If people think this is
> me, could someone let me know? Given its a publicly archived list
> and all, can people be careful when they post e-mails like the one 
> below to the list?

Yeah this is a little fucked I guess in both directions. I wasn't at
the meeting last night, but this has been dwindling in my brain for a
while.

Previously during an ordeal involving someone doing unexcellent things
and eventually getting formally banned from the space, we (as a group)
went back and forth on how to address the person in anything archived
on the internet that wouldn't be the sort of thing that can be held
against them. We opted to only use first names and no direct email
addresses associated to them within the body/content of any public
communications.

Since then we've kind of bounced back and forth on how this works,
mostly because we're actually a very informal group and unless it's
written down and a computer yells at you when you do it wrong, we
forget or simply don't know. Full names have been used, synonyms, nick
names, John Waters, email addresses, etc. This thread here might be
the first case where someone outside of a conflict is having problems
with their name matching up, and seeing that as potentially negative
towards them.

It would be great if we could discuss about and eventually adopt some
guideline on how to refer to individuals during conflict resolution.
We don't want to step on anyone's toes, but at the same time it's
rather hard to do that without maintain some sort of ambiguity around
those involved in the conflict, just in case someone being blamed
isn't actually at fault.

The internet never forgets.

- -- 
Rubin
rubin at starset.net


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