[Noisebridge-discuss] Speakers and amplified sound at NB

[Liz Henry]

No link.... if someone is asking you to turn the music down and you're not,
it's just plain old disrespectful of you to refuse and then mock them.
Remember the "be excellent to each other" part?

Best,

Liz


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:22 AM, LinkReincarnate
<linkreincarnate at gmail.com>wrote:

> 1 is your hypersythesia in your ears?(that is a serious question)
> 2 music bothers you but you can live with people running the table saw?
> 3 this is a doocracy if you have a problem bring it up yourself.  If it is
> not worth attending the meeting to do it yourself then its not worth anyone
> elses time bringing it up.
> 4 we are a hackerspace not a workerspace and some of us like to hack on
> noisy/musical projects
> 5 are you really complaining that noisebridge is too loud.  Have you read
> the name?  Are you trolling?
> 6 seriously you come to a place called noisebridge and complain about the
> sounds??
> 7 numbered lists are fun
> 8 i think that the music rule should be majority in the space gets their
> way. Im willing to follow this even if people dont want music but allowing
> one person to dictatate when music can and cant be played seems doesnt sit
> well with me.
> On May 28, 2013 12:16 AM, "Zach" <organic_unity at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>   I wont be able to make it to the meeting on Tues, and I had a talk with
>> someone at NB this week (again) about playing music on the giant amplified
>> speakers in the main space at NB.  This was discussed at a meeting in the
>> past, and this person suggested it be brought up again.
>>
>> In the past meeting on this people shared their thoughts and said:
>> 1) it is a long standing NB practice to tell people to use
>> headphones/laptop speakers to play personal music for entertainment
>> 2) everyone has their own taste in music which is not always shared in
>> common
>> 3) the space is a worker space, not a music venue.
>>
>> I really am burnt out on NB drama of sorts, and have only started coming
>> to NB again recently.  Its frustrating to have to beat this dead horse
>> nearly every time Im at NB.  After that meeting things did improve a lot
>> and many people were very kind and responsive.  It still does come up
>> though.
>>
>> Not that I think its entirely relevant, but this does affect my medical
>> condition.  I was diagnosed with hyperaesthesia (
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperesthesia) among other things.  I can
>> show my medical records to people if it would help.  Honestly, I think this
>> is just a matter of respect.  I use the space to work on projects, fix
>> things, and educate.  I dont see why playing music on those large speakers
>> to fill the entire space with sound is necessary.  It can be very
>> disruptive and for me it is actually painful.  For the most part, I ask
>> people if I can turn the music down when I'm there and most everyone is
>> accomodating.  I usually then tell people when I'm leaving so they can turn
>> the volume back up if they like.  But there are people that are very
>> confrontational about this like the incident this week, so if someone could
>> mention this at a meeting again, even briefly, it could help.  Feel free to
>> read/show this email at the meeting.
>>
>> Thank you for reading what I have to share,
>> Zach
>>
>>
>>
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