[hackerspaces] How to deal with this kinds of arrasemenr

[Pete Prodoehl]

We have Rule #2 which is "Don't be a dick." as outlined here:

http://wiki.milwaukeemakerspace.org/bylaws/section213_article4_subsectionk_paragraph18_line419

And yeah, we make (too many) signs:

     http://wiki.milwaukeemakerspace.org/projects/dontbeadick


Pete


On 1/27/14, 4:27 PM, Dave wrote:
> I'm considering adding "Don't be an asshole!" to the top of our small 
> list of rules.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Arclight <arclight at gmail.com 
> <mailto:arclight at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well, if you want to have nice things, you have to keep the space
>     nice.  The first step would be for someone to privately talk to
>     this individual and let them know they are getting out of hand.
>     Don't drop hints, don't be ambiguous, and do this in person, not
>     e-mail or over the phone.This should be sufficient if we're
>     talking someone who is not crazy.
>
>     If this doesn't do it, subsequent warnings can come in the form of
>     their key not working, and some large dudes having any further
>     discussions outside the space in the parking lot. The language can
>     be rather less polite if necessary.
>
>     Don't ever play games like "trying to keep the weirdo guy away
>     from the girls" or other passive-aggressive BS. If you don't trust
>     them  to be in your space unsupervised, they should not be in the
>     space in the first place.  Whether they are useful to your space
>     in other ways is not the issue here. Someone will step up to
>     replace what you lost, but you can't replace trust.
>
>
>     We don't a new study in post-modern gender roles among computer
>     professionals to know what basic manners are supposed to look like.
>
>     Arclight
>     23b Shop
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Florencia Edwards
>     <floev22 at gmail.com <mailto:floev22 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi all. On our hackerspaces there is this person very active
>         in the community of older age (60ish), who started giving
>         presents to a 26 year old staff member and asking her to
>         report when she got home because he worried somehing would
>         happen to her. Than he sent an email saying he was in love
>         with this member and that he had expectations ,but all was
>         lost when he found out she had a boyfriend. The staff member
>         told him she wasnt intrested and to please keep distance,
>         respectfuly. After that he kept sending emails saying that he
>         needed this staff memers attention to keep proactive in the
>         maker community. He sent another present
>         This staff memer is tired of this, is doing an ignore strategy
>         but this person insists a lot. Also the conmunity at the
>         hackersoace love him and learn a lot from him so its difficult
>         to just ban.
>
>         What do you recomend for this? How can communicate with ths
>         person so he stops bothering the staff? Do you consider his
>         behavior arrasement?
>
>         Ill really appreceate answers
>
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