[ltcoleman]

In my opinion, all hacker spaces, co-working spaces, etc. need somebody to be the "bad cop". Building any size community requires members to participate. Tech people in particular are generally less likely to want to cause confrontation, but for the betterment of the community some policing is always needed. It really goes back to respect. Respect the community, and it will respect you back.

[mcpherrinm]

Definitely. Maybe Noisebridge is a cool place to be, but I hear stories like this often enough and it really makes me never want to go there.

I've been to plenty of other spaces and it can be a cool scene, but Noisebridge's reputation isn't good.

[cgag]

If you're in SF you should stop by sometime, it's still overall a cool place to be, it's easy to get a distorted image of the place through the mailinglist and news articles.