[Noisebridge-discuss] It has come to my attention that...

[Josh Juran]

On Jun 19, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Andrew Byrne wrote:

> "Radical scene"
> "Extralegal venue" = us determining guilt, innocence or mediation so we can
> ask people to leave or not.
> 
> And yes, let's lock out people who are creepy and predatory.
> 
> Let's also recognize trolls.

Rachel's post was not trolling.

Josh


> On Jun 19, 2013 10:40 AM, "rachel lyra hospodar" <rachelyra at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> "In the scene"?
>> "An extralegal venue"?
>> 
>> Maybe this is another case of noisbridge not actually being designed for
>> everything. It's not a home, and it's certainly not a 'play space'.
>> 
>> While Noisebridge is not kink-un-friendly, as we try to be welcoming to
>> all, it is not part of sex-play community, and is in fact on the other end
>> of the spectrum wrt to safety. Your scene is at The Citadel, bro, not here.
>> Come here to solder your vibrator, not use it.
>> 
>> The space is also not a 'venue' of any kind, legal or non. It's a
>> community space, and one that has long been welcoming to many flavors of
>> social awkwardness, as long as the awkward comes with a core of respect,
>> wrapped around a desire to fucking hack.
>> 
>> Not creepy predatory bullshit, though. Nope. Don't need that, thanks.