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* Announcing and discussing projects, classes, and events related to Noisebridge.
* Announcing and discussing projects, classes, and events related to Noisebridge.
* Inciting responses from the many experienced and knowledgeable regular contributors to the community.
* Inciting responses from the many experienced and knowledgeable regular contributors to the community.
* Proposing project or class ideas.
* Asking general questions about things related to Noisebridge, including, classes, the wiki, events.


=== Challenges ===
=== Appropriate Behavior ===
Posts about appropriate behavior, while inevitable, can become quite unnerving to the large number of list recipients. This document serves to minimize such nuisance.


We have many different people, from many different backgrounds, with different degrees of familiarity with hacker culture and custom. Misunderstandings under these conditions is common. Sometimes it is deliberately provoked (see "Trolling").
Do not make posts of whines, emotion, drama, accusations, personal complaints, including complaints disguised as questions. Do not retaliate to such posts on the list. Do not start a new thread to complain about other threads or people.


* Please act as though your respondent is talking in good faith, and not aiming to personally annoy or belittle you. This may not be always true, but it is more true than you might think!
Be considerate.
* If something is misunderstood, seek to clarify, rather than express amazement or disappointment that an idea could be misunderstood.
* References to the wiki, past conversations, and this document is encouraged, though always understand that nothing at Noisebridge is entirely canonical.
 
=== Appropriate Behaviour, Personal Attacks ===
Posts about appropriate behavior, while inevitable, can become quite unnerving to the large number of list recipients. It's also archived forever on a publicly searchable forum. Noisebridge has a very strong cultural reticence to delete or censor content once posted.
 
The best place to sort out concerns about personal behaviour at Noisebridge is face-to-face, either with the person you're concerned with, or at our weekly Tuesday meeting. Remember, you can always ask someone to leave and come back to weekly meeting.
 
It is best not to make posts of an emotional nature, post accusations, personal complaints. That includes complaints disguised as questions. Do not retaliate to such posts on the list (a simple acknowledgement and encouragement to meet at meeting is often best). Do not start a new thread to complain about other threads or people.
 
Even if your complaint (or defence) is perfectly polite and factual, it is almost inevitable that others' comments will not be.
 
At the best, such discussions will be marked with the [drama] tag, to allow dfine and others to filter them away. At worst, all conversationalists will be suspended by the sinister Mailing List moderator for 24 hours or longer until the temptation to reply has diminished.
 
=== Trolling and Joke Posts ===
 
Noisebridge-discuss has a long historical tradition of strangers writing to the list to provoke an emotional response, and other satirical and whimsical posts. While we treasure our self-trolling, self-gaming tradition, sometimes this can step over the line and disrupt genuine communication.
 
Under such conditions, the Noisebridge-discuss area turns from a self-regulating anarchy into a terrifying dystopian authoritarian nightmare, controlled by the iron hand of of our Noisebridge-Discuss Moderator. His punishments vary from "switching the mod bit" (which is sort of like a cat o' nine-tails), and throwing people off the mailing list entirely, and/or returning them to the Negative Zone Prison from whence they escaped.
 
Kneel before Mod!


=== Posting Style ===  
=== Posting Style ===  
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==== Top Posting (don't) ====
==== Top Posting (don't) ====
Top posting (replying with your text at the top of the message) can disrupt the conversation; please don't do it.
Top posting is a common cause of communication failure and is often a tactic to rudely ruin a discussion.
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