Blog Rules 1.0

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Blog Rules 1.0

This will not be an open blog to everyone outside the building. This is designed for residents of the building only, so I will need everyone’s help in policing this policy.

The sign in rule to post or comment is to cut down on spam and also to keep people outside the community from hijacking the blog. To share something new or to comment, you will need to have any of the following accounts: Google, Live Journal, WordPress, Typepad, Aim, or OpenID. If you have none of these accounts, the easiest one to get is Google email.

The rules for this blog are very simple. There will be no flaming of residents, calling residents out by name or by loft number, and no profanity. What is considered profanity? Most in the building are old enough to know. When in doubt, don’t use it.

These same rules apply regarding discussions about the staff of the Kirby. If you have a problem with a member of the Kirby staff, take it to the building manager directly. This site will not be used to rant at Kirby management. But it will be used to discuss serious problems that are affecting our personal safety and well-being.

These rules are not static. They will be ever changing as someone tries to skirt the letter of the law. When that happens, the letter of the law will be changed to fit the new problem. If you cannot follow these simple rules, you will NOT be posted.

Thanks,

Kirby on Main Resident (KOMR)

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Blog Rules

This will not be an open blog to everyone outside the building. This is designed for residents of the building only, so I will need everyone’s help in policing this policy.

Thanks,

Kirby on Main Resident (KOMR)

Statement of Purpose

This blog is designed to be used as a community newspaper and web community center for the residents of the Kirby building. Merriam - Webster defines a community center as a building or group of buildings for a community's educational and recreational activities.

This site is NOT Kirby or Berkshire sponsored.

As a newspaper - you the residents are the reporters. Let’s report on events and issues going on in the building as well as outside the building. If a new restaurant opens and you think it was great or a flop, tell your neighbors here. Report on art shows, movie shoots, and especially anything free going on in our downtown neighborhood.

Are you selling a couch or table? Take a picture and put it online here. You have tickets to a Cowboys, Stars, Mavericks, or Rangers game and can’t go? Sell them here. You want to have an opening night Cowboy or a Texas/OU watch party in the clubhouse or lobby? Put it here. Are you walking over to the AAC to watch a game? Find out who else is going and tailgate on the way.

If you have an opinion / editorial on how the building is being run, put it here. If you are a pet owner and while you were walking your dog some panhandler or homeless person was harassing you, give a description of the person or better yet if you can safely take a picture do so and post it here.

Now for the community center part of the blog. The Kirby has always been big and some will say legendary on recreation, but it also has been short on education. Holding true to the recreation part of a community center, we want this site to be used as a bulletin board for resident events.

Just because the Kirby doesn’t do resident appreciation events like the other resident buildings downtown, that doesn’t mean we can’t come together and do them ourselves. As a building, we can do hallway parties / dinners / desserts, wine and beer tastings, or just plan old poker runs or pub crawls; and if they are posted here, more people will join in.

As for the education piece of the community center, let’s change that trend and start educating each other to some of the unfortunate things that have been happening here in the building. Let’s create something similar to a neighborhood watch program but online.

With no fulltime concierge or security services in the building (like most of the other adult resident buildings in downtown), we are left exposed. We need to be the eyes and ears for each other.

If someone will steal candles from the clubhouse and a workout ball from the fitness center, there isn’t much else people won’t take.

Let’s set some Watch Program rules to follow… See Watch Program below