I'll make a few overarching comments: The Rangers do their best to weed out people that are authority seekers. Some mask it well, and for some it only emerges after they've become empowered. There are disciplinary protocols, but unless specific and timely feedback is given to the Rangers as an Org, ...

We're always told to "Find a Ranger". So what is your function and when SHOULD we "Find a Ranger"? Ah...good point! You should certainly find a Ranger when you have a problem. For some things, a Ranger can help you themselves, immediately. This is usually with information: "Hey Ranger....where is S...

I know there is a real glamor to the Ranger name and they have had a good reputation in BRC. But I have to say, sadly, that I heard a very similar story from a very different person last year: purposefully harsh and deceptive trainers, "gotcha!" kind of tests, a shift that stretched to double the s...

First, I'd like to say how sorry I am that your experience trying for the Rangers wasn't a positive one. Letting people down easily after they try hard to make a team is never easy. But I wanted to point out a few things I think are not quite correct, or at the very least quite biased in your portra...

Thanx all - YEAH we deserve a brutal, hierarchical, inherently undemocratic entity such as a blanket statement free loader perimeter police force to keep the unwanted out as well as their accomplices........... revoke them tickets - punish them - let's get the rotten eggs and tomatoes out!!! Party ...

We decided to sacrifice watching the temple burn to get a fast exodus, but in spite of it being posted here on ePlaya, nobody seemed to know about the 8pm Temple Burn plan. So we ended up missing the burn and getting caught in the line after it, since "just before the burn" is normally a great time...

Our strategy was to pack on Sunday and listen to the radio for an opportune time to leave. Our plan failed due to inaccurate and not updated radio information. GAR seemed like it should be the authoritative source for exodus information. Unfortunately it was a recorded message that was rarely updat...

I took a few friends out to the Robot Heart art car. All sober. Buddy of mine realizes he has some jolly ranchers, and goes to give them out. Cue our group getting pulled out of the crowd by BLM, lights flashed in our eyes, and harassed over jolly ranchers. They refused to identify themselves and d...

Yeah, you're right that commercial businesses are nothing new; I'm not disputing that. Like I said before: I'm not opposed to commercial entities providing services, and in fact see many not as a necessary evil, but a benefit. What I'm asking is: why is To Flame being singled out? Also, I don't thi...

And since folks generally have an anti-LEO bent here, I thought some clarification would be in order. When you see evictions listed in their stats, almost all of those are at the behest/guidance of the community for people not conforming to the event rules. Just to be clear that BLM isn't walking ar...

Wow...lots of questions and comments. Ygmir has answered some, but I'll chime in FWIW. For UnJon: There is no lane from the highway because that'd be unfair. So you come tooling down the highway and zip all the way to willcall in your special lane (if there's no wait). Since there's special lanes to...

A) Other than public nudity & walking around with open alcohol, if you have to ask "is _______________ legal at Burning Man", it's probably not. B) Think of ePlaya as a house party. Do you walk into a room full of strangers & ask, repeatedly, if anyone's kinky & if you can have sex on the couch in ...

Registered camps, vehicles, and art projects already have something of a permanent record, each department has their own electronic records going back many years (far longer than either you or I have been attending the event). The only consideration as far as directed tickets is concerned is "in go...

Im not from the u.s (israel) and im really excited for being for the first time in the burning man and i want to make sure i wont miss the tickets seal so i whant to know when the tickets seal start, be which time zone should i prepar my self This post subject is hella awesome. I read it and for a ...

It's neither a new position nor a fancy term for a receptionist job (well, they provide backup on reception duties). Burning Man's offices have a lot of meeting rooms that see quite a bit of action - internal department and team meetings as well as meetings with volunteer groups and outside folks (...

Well, not that edge, though BRC is kinda' there. I'm talking about living on the edge of BRC, out in the burbs. We got wheels-on-playa about 2:00 AM Monday and got through Willcall, Gate and Greeters about 4. Frustration and fatigue got me parked at 7:30 & J, right on the corner. I put my rig and m...

Dear LoR, SNIP-- that when we--his "offendees" approached him about the issue, he blew us off and dismissed us as it being a "misunderstanding." Uh...this is exactly what I proposed for you to do. SNIP "I appreciate that you want to protect him from us hysterical women folk, but we're not all a bun...

Please don't misunderstand this post as defending the guy in any way. But as a guy, it's really awful to have a misunderstand paint you with a brush you might not have deserved. Here's how I'd like it handled if I were the proposed creeper, but perhaps wasn't really. Woman in question that feels lik...

There is nothing in the world wrong with acting like a civilized human being. If standing in the dust and ripping tickets is hard, what about the Medical people? Their job is hard but you don't see them verbally-abusing people for dehydration. The DMV didn't verbally-abuse people for not having the...

We usually bring two chilled 6 packs, one for the gate and one for the greeters. Other than sometimes walking on things in the truck we'd rather they not step on, we've never had a problem. Though I have to add that we never had a problem before we started bringing them beer. We just do it because ...

Seems like with the money coming into the Org, coupled with an insurance policy, that the Org stance could be that: Any reported rape will be attended to by LEO and appropriate members of ESD. ESD has specifically trained members that can help offer support and outline the victim's options. One opti...

This douche http://eplaya.burningman.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23598 Well, that's not very nice. What's got your dander up? I'm a "top asshat" because I disagreed with a member of Gate being called a "stupid bitch" and defended her? <shakes head> Ah....the entitled, fragile burner rears...

This douche http://eplaya.burningman.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23598 Well, that's not very nice. What's got your dander up? I'm a "top asshat" because I disagreed with a member of Gate being called a "stupid bitch" and defended her? <shakes head> Ah....the entitled, fragile burner rears...

There has always (okay, for longer than I have been going, started in 2002) been procedures for the llc (I don't know pre-llc practices) to evict persons, or camps. Yup. Doesn't happen all that often at each Burn, but a handful of the Org departments have established procedures for doing it. Nothin...

Fucking Freebird. Just... horrible. Everything else was just lovely though :) I keep waiting for someone to explain this, but it doesn't seem to be forthcoming. DPW lost a core member of their group this year. The playing of freebird was a tribute to him and was in no way meant to be any form of a ...

RH- Your "cross the street" assholes, must have been across the 4:30 side, right? cause we were your across D neighbors, and I know nothing if the asshatery that you're talking about with the cans and glow sticks. Did you guys repeatedly report them to Rangers and Placement? They have a variety of ...

WORST: The stupid bitch at Gate who refered to early Burners as "her dummies" because they arrived a couple of hours early thinking that there would a much, much longer line to the gate. You must think you're pretty fucking awesome to greet people to BRC by insulting them, there, Precious, but you ...

Best My camp mates. Kiting on the playa. Running into a classmate I haven't seen in over 35 years. All the positive vibrations from other burners. No yahoo encounters. The Greeters who cheered me up. The art. Wall Street. The Temple. The Man. YOU!!!! Worst Being stopped at the gate for the sole pur...

WORST: potentially getting fired from job I have a chronic medical condition and had a flare up on playa making me unable to travel home on Thursday. I am out on legal disability and have MUCH medical documentaion on file. My spouse, also on playa, needed to be back at work on Friday. Since we didn...

LoR is correct that the schedule for Greeters is now set, BUT, it's never too late to come and learn to be a Greeter. Greeting is one of those jobs where having more people out greeting is always good. Come on out to the Greeter's station and introduce yourself to the Lead greeters on duty. There i...