[Noisebridge-discuss] "Banning" discussion tonight

[Naomi Most]

This! Thank you for chiming in, Rachel.


On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> Right, it's easy to see how to avoid the situation now.  And I doubt that
> specific failure will happen again!
>
> But:
>
> Any time there are rules, there will be edge cases where conforming to the
> letter of a rule breaks the spirit of the rule.  If it is generally agreed
> that spirit breakage is a problem, the usual solution is to make another
> rule to handle the edge case.  And then another rule for the edge case that
> the second rule missed, and so on.  See, for example, our US legal system!
>
> Maybe it's OK to have some bad "consensus" items?  Getting to consensus
> was harder and took a lot longer when there was no rule about How, I do
> recall.  People got tired of it and checked out.  That is obviously still
> happening, but maybe it is happening less?
>
> Ron, do you think it is a problem that so many people are objecting to
> this consensus item after the fact?  I kinda hear "tough shit" underneath
> your responses, have you got something better to offer?  I don't have a
> better idea myself so maybe I should just shut up.
>
> Rachel1.0
>
> On 2/26/14 12:20 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
>
>> I agree but for noisebridge to work right and for this to have not
>> happened.   It is simple.  Be more involved. Communicate more.  Made
>> sure someone would be there.  It is hard but with a community like this
>> it requires massive efforts and slacking a bit puts us in this situation.
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2014 11:52 AM, "Rachel McConnell" <rachel at xtreme.com
>> <mailto:rachel at xtreme.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     OK about a consensus item that passed, as Lee's ban did, without the
>>     full agreement of the membership - as this obviously did.  How does
>>     it get un-done by consensus?  The don't-ban-Lee faction screwed up;
>>     fair enough; there were Reasons but whatever.  But now that it's on
>>     the books, it can't be removed except also by consensus, and the
>>     do-ban-Lee faction can just be more careful about coming to the
>>     meetings to block the un-ban.
>>
>>     If the point of consensus decision making is for everyone to agree -
>>     at least enough to accept a solution, even if they don't really like
>>     it - you cannot say that consensus has succeeded here.  The process
>>     happened, but consensus (the dictionary use, as opposed to the
>>     Noisebridge-specific jargon use) does not actually exist.
>>
>>     Al, Ron, Tom, Jake A, everyone: what is your thinking on this?
>>       Imagine, if you will, that it was Al who got banned, and through a
>>     fluke, everyone who would otherwise have blocked it had something
>>     else they needed to do that night, and each knew that everyone else
>>     would block so it wasn't vital that they, personally, were there.
>>
>>     Rachel1.0
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