<div dir="ltr"><div>Al, you might just put up a sign that says, no cross burnings on the lawn. I mean it's important for people to know your hackerspace is a lynching free location.<br><br></div><div>I am going to go with the german on this one. Do you have such a huge problem with harassment that you need to put up a sign? <br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Moritz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moritz@headstrong.de" target="_blank">moritz@headstrong.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 01/27/2014 04:27 AM, Al Billings wrote:<br>
> Putting up a sign shows that maybe, just a little, some people in the<br>
> group give a shit about welcoming folks, accepting diversity, and want<br>
> to be clear that discrimination and such are not to be tolerated.<br>
<br>
</div>See, that is the underlying disagreement here. I *expect* that from<br>
*any* group I participate in. And I *see* that it works well, and people<br>
actively make steps towards this. They don't need a sign! To the<br>
contrary, most people I know react allergic to signs and policies, and a<br>
sign would be counterproductive. Quite similarly to "I read a LOT of<br>
books, but any book on the official agenda of my school I didn't bother<br>
even touching.".<br>
<br>
The only effective method is to *live* the policies, as members, and pay<br>
a lot of attention to how new arrivals behave, and then take them into a<br>
1:1 conversation.<br>
<br>
--mo<br>
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