I too am a not-yet-member, who is considering SYNHAK as a place to spend some 
time, meet some new people, learn some new skills, and work on my pet projects. 
 I fully support the goal of respecting and being excellent to all regardless 
of the differences in how we choose to live out our personal lives.  Therefore 
I would like to request two things. First that we add religious preference to 
the list of things we strive to respect about each other. Second that we remove 
the attempt at humor on the sales rack calling it a god.

V/R
Tim Seeley

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of alex kot
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:47 AM
To: SYN/HAK discussion list
Subject: Re: [SH-Discuss] New mailing list: power-racing-series

Thanks Torrie, Philip, and Xander for your input.  Just to elaborate more onto 
this.  Syn/Hak is a community for open minded individuals.  The space does not 
condone to judging sexual preference, race, gender, and disabilities.  By 
chance this was just one of those internet references that was not in context 
of judging someones sexual preference, be leery that everyone may not get those 
references.  Try to be politically correct and most importantly respectful of 
other people, after all this is a public email listing.

On Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:38 PM, Alexander Golightley 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Torrie, thank you. Seriously. I couldn't support your decision more than I do 
now.

As another non-heteronormative member of the LGBT community, I deal with 
bigoted crap enough day to day. I don't need to deal with it in the 
organization I love so dearly. I think actions like this are the only way to 
show that this type of bigotry is unacceptable. I'm delighted to be part of an 
organization that feels the same way (although I am in no way surprised by 
this. I think very highly of the people involved in SYN/HAK.)

-Xander


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Philip P. Patnode 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
TWIMC and Torrie Fischer,

As an outsider and non-member, who is considering SYNHAK as a place to spend 
some time, meet some new people, learn some new skills, and work on my pet 
projects, I want to state that I fully support Torrie Fischer's reaction to the 
astonishing email from BL containing an obvious slur against a group of people 
who deserve to be treated as equals in all respects, at all times.

Homophobic slurs are unwanted, unnecessary, embarrassing, and totally devoid of 
substance.  Even one as silly as the one in BL's email reply - is out of place 
in our civilized society.  Comments like that have no place in the organization 
and must be suppressed with prejudice immediately.

I hope that the members of SYNHAK will agree with Torrie and support her.

Sincerely,

PPP

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Torrie Fischer 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thursday, November 14, 2013 20:28:58 Ben Lippincott wrote:
> Ha! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Hello, friend.

It seems that you have tried to introduce a smidgen of immature humor into a
public mailing list. As a non-heteronormative member of the LGBT community, I
must say that I am disgusted with your behavior. Thoroughly disgusted, in
fact. I will admit this: SYNHAK is essentially a very large community of
technical children who somehow managed to pull together enough collaborative
effort to give birth to something wonderful in the City of Invention.

Irrespective of that, we give each other the full respect that each of us is
due. Using "gay" in such a manner shows a disappointing lack of respect from
you.

As Champion of SYNHAK, it is my duty to ensure that SYNHAK is constantly
moving in a direction in accordance with our mission statement, which I've
included here from our bylaws for reference:

    SYN/HAK provides an environment for people to educate, create, and share
    amongst themselves and others within the domains of technology, art and
    science.

-- http://static.synhak.org/documents/latex/bylaws.pdf


It is my belief that in order to secure such an environment, upholding the
first rule of the space is of utmost important. Again, i've included it here
for reference:

    1. Be excellent to each other.

-- http://static.synhak.org/documents/latex/space-rules.pdf

With the powers vested in me as documented through our bylaws and given to me
through my re-election to the position of SYNHAK Champion by the membership of
this community, I hereby declare that you were not acting in accordance with
our mission statement. That is to say, you are not acting Excellent.

I recommend that you cease this behavior immediately. Do not pass go. Do not
collect $200. Do not send another mail to this community or further action
will be taken to exclude you and your behavior from it.

>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:59 AM, codex codices 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > I tried to subscribe and it says that I must enter a valid email address.
> > Its the same address I use for the other mailing lists.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Torrie Fischer
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
> >> Howdy, all.
> >>
> >> At the request of Devin, I've created a new list:
> >>
> >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Subscribe here: https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/power-racing-series
> >>
> >> It is intended for use in facilitating discussions about the power wheel
> >> racing series project, aka the big pink Power Wheels car and nearby
> >> tractor
> >> chassis in the front of the space. I've added Devin as the primary list
> >> owner,
> >> with [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> as the backup.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Discuss mailing list
> >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> >> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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