Con Etiquette

[rooneym.livejournal.com]

We all know of people who aren't the best at being social or playing well with others. So post your "con etiquette" list here, or your favorite.

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[rozhena-ashford.livejournal.com]

Bathe at least once a day.
Get plenty of sleep.
Be nice to other congoers.
Yes, you got to wear yer steenkin' badge.

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Bathe/shower/degrease
Deodorant
Don't touch w/o asking
Keep moving

[dementia.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* Hasn't this been posted a gazillion times already in the community?

This is in the wiki, the FAQ, and all throughout the community.

[childofmetis.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think we need people using the tags more often.

[vikingprincess]

BATHE
BATHE
BATHE
BATHE
BATHE

[branwyn32.livejournal.com]

I'm a con newbie, this past Frolicon was my first con ever...are there really that many people who suddenly forget to bathe at DCon?! :/

[fory-san.livejournal.com]

BATHE! Any brand of soap. :)

[call-me-sick.livejournal.com]

1) Ask before you Glomp. Some of us get very nervouse when strange people just glomp us because of the character we are.

2) Shut up! If it's obvious that someone doesn't care about you stories, save yourself the embarrassment and sour looks and shut up.

3) Ask before you take a pic. Though a pic of Snape with his finger up his nose, or Edward Cullen adjusting his junk, remember... You don't like pics like that of you.

4) Be curtious of people with disabilities. There is no telling how many times I see someone in a wheelchair trying to get through a hallway and no one will move to let them through.

5) If you are walking in a tight hall and just stop to answer your phone or talk to your friend, I will NOT stop walking and when you give me the evil look for running you over, just remember, you were warned.

:D

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Strange...the year I was at Dragoncon on crutches, I actually found people to be very courteous - to the point where I was uncomfortable. I'd walk up to the elevator and attempt to wait just like everybody else, and was shoved into them before I was ready...stuff like that.

[orcapotter.livejournal.com]

Most of it is all right here: http://www.girlsentertainmentnetwork.com/cosplay-etiquette/

[captains-folly.livejournal.com]

1.Bathe
2. Do not tackle people! Seriously now, some of you hurt during impact.
3. Ask before you take pictures. So we can move our badges out of frame.
4. Do not use your children as body or road blocks.
5. If you have issues with someone, keep it to yourself and not pass on miss informed information to other people.
6. If someone says "hi", return the gesture.
7. To the dude who flipped me off in the elevator a year ago, I'm watch you!
8. Do not put stuff in the elevator! Like plants, chairs, and ext.
9. Everyone is at con to have fun, so don't be a jerk.
10. Just get along.

[alexdelarge78.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to talk about no 6 on your list.

There are some people, like me who are introverted though you wouldn't think it to look at my costume and unless they have had a few bottles of dutch courage are not necesserily social animals. I smile and a nod of the head, subtle though it may be- may be all that you get after a "hi".

It's nothing personal, it's just the nature of the beast :)

As for somebody flipping you off in an elevator, that's probably the same invidiaul who threw the glass over the balcony in the marriot. I'm going to get all crude now.

Some punk ass who doesn't belong at the con but enjoys the bandwagon.

Sadly, though we are all a loosely termed 'family' at con, there are the fools and buffoons. THankfully they are a minority.

[datavortex.livejournal.com]

Do not lick Patrick Stewart's head, no matter how loudly the voices inside your head demand it.

[greenwitch.livejournal.com]

PROTIP

[neoengel.livejournal.com]

http://neoengel.com/con_rules.html

[dementia.livejournal.com]

This is hawt.

Kthxbai.

[hobanwfan.livejournal.com]

If you are at a panel, please, for the love of all that is holy, do NOT ask the panel guest for an autograph or hug. It is a complete waste of time and the guests generally don't want to do it. If you do choose this route, be prepared to be booed.

[veracity]

Or ask about slash fan fiction. Please, for all that is holy, wait until you get their autograph. Especially if it's real people.

[drhaggis.livejournal.com]

There is a great resource of con etiquette here, though their spelling is a little questionable: http://tr.im/tOwE

[stigmund.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so f-cking WIN!

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

At least once every 24 hours: go to your hotel room, go into the bathroom, take off all your clothes, turn on the shower, get into the shower, lather yourself up using the soap conveniently provided by the hotel, wash your hair with the shampoo conveniently provided by the hotel, rinse off all the soap, turn off the water, get out of the shower, dry yourself off completely, put on clean clothes, and (preferably) put on antiperspirant/deodorant before leaving the room again.

On a related note, despite the advertising, spraying yourself down with Axe from head to toe does NOT substitute for the previous paragraph. It just leaves everyone around you unable to breathe.

[alexdelarge78.livejournal.com]

But but. . but. . that will eat up CON time .. don't you UNDERSTAND that I need to have more CON time . .I mean REALLY . .

; D

[ladytalker13.livejournal.com]

I can't stress enough courtesy to people having mobility issues... many times last year I saw scooters or wheelchairs at a dead stop for minutes or more while people just pushed past them and around them without letting them move...

[pixiekingtom.livejournal.com]

And on the other hand, just because you're in a chair doesn't mean that you have priority in the hallways. PLEASE watch for the people around you. I can't name the amount of times I've seen people in a hurry pop those bad boys on high and start running over feet because they felt that traffic was moving too slow

[kissokomes.livejournal.com]

This will be my first D*C, but I've been doing other cons for years, and this is one I rarely see brought up:

COMFORT LEVEL, COMFORT LEVEL, COMFORT LEVEL. This is about more than just 'no touching without asking,' this goes for a lot of behaviors. Believe me, I'm really happy to go to D*C and let my freak flag fly, and I'm not saying 'COVER UP!' or 'BEHAVE!' (heavens no, I'd be a hypocrite) but there's a difference between making really awful jokes 20 minutes into a conversation at the bar with a new friend and walking up to a total stranger and starting a really uncomfortable conversation.

Like there's a difference between 'yeah, I'm having a great time at the con. I've actually been to a few drawing panels, I draw some 18+ stuff so I like to see other artists, and share my work at D*C' and 'HI STRANGER CAN I SHOW YOU MY PR0N.' I know most of us are wacky pervs, but I'm sure there are people there who aren't and. It's just rude to assume you know what everyone's comfort level is based on the fact that they're a nerd like you. :D

I am not joking, people do this. I promise you, you will only serve to make yourself the horror story I tell people about when they ask 'why might cons not be for me?'

[pktaxwench.livejournal.com]

On the same note, if you've in a scooter or wheelchair, recognize that it is not your god given right to go everywhere FIRST. You can wait to move through croweded areas like the rest of us.

If I find the 300 lb cow on a motorized scooter than ran over my foot in the Mariott 2 years ago, I will bitch slap you into next week and crash your scooter for good measure. (trust me, after my scream, she just barreled through the crowd.)

I'm sorry, people on scooters with no obvious disability other than obesity... you will never have my sympathy after that. Police your own.

[alexdelarge78.livejournal.com]

That's all well and good, and I do understand that some people decide they want to play spped racer regardless of humanity around them, but none of us really have an idea about anothers physical impediment.

Sometimes there are accidents and in my line of work I have really learned to 'look' at a situation rather than assuming, not to disrespect you of course.

It's a tricky situation at con. It's courtesy vs logic and safety.

[gilderoylock.livejournal.com]

#1 rule...

Don't act like a nobler than thou self appointed nazi bitch, whose ostentatious displays of brovado are all for the good of the community. This isn't your personal dominatrix studio, even though it's hard to do; stop acting like it's your day job as a floor manager at Walmart. Your displays of power tripping disgust me.

"Oh noes, we are such noble geeks here we can't be bothered with redundant questions, it's a waste of time cause we really have something better to do than hang out on livejournal(really..no joking..you gotta believe). Please do searches cause you know.. I haven't had a chance to douche the sand out yet today."

agreement

[ladyaraden.livejournal.com]

Oh, I so agree with and second you. The bitching about "unoriginal or redundant" posts flies in the face of what I thought this community was about.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

there is always a line to get into the good panels and shows. so its cool if you want to hold a place for your sweetie, maybe even cool if you hold a place for your sweetie and her friend, but when 20 of your closest friends show up and cut in line with you, that pisses everyone else off.

dont do it.

[alexdelarge78.livejournal.com]

I think that if that were to happen in 'my' line there would be a raised objection and if necessary security involvement.

On a much smaller scale myself and wife waited in line for the Weasely twins. I just wanted to say hello. Halfway into it a mother attempted to sneak her daughter into the line and after my wife raised a diplomatic objection she was accused of being 'indignant'.

If you *are* going to hold a place in line, don't be suprised or dissagreeable if another objects to this. Everyone has to wait in line.

[boomergoodheart.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a vendor, please be patient if a dealer's booth is swamped. Last year, I was the only one working the SEBC booth during the parade, and we were slammed! Luckily, Browncoats are some of the nicest folk out there and were content to let me fumble along as best I could.

If you really, really have to get to that panel/Q&A/whatever, please come back! We can only go so fast, especially since almost everyone pays with a CC. Then we're stuck going as fast as the machine can process.

Thank you in advance! :-D

[alexdelarge78.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that this year things will be different. I understand that last year the vendors had a 'ridiculous' influx of customers.

I remember with a smile my attempt to look around the tables of wares, I had to pick a direction and fall into the flow of humanity, moving with the tide.

[pixiekingtom.livejournal.com]

http://www.friendsoffoamy.com/videos/rules-for-the-masses-episode-053
Watch it, love it, live it

[rm.livejournal.com]

http://rm.livejournal.com/1596235.html

[elvishtard.livejournal.com]

Please, if you have to fart...do it in the bathroom.

Also. Please don't poop your pants.

Plzthnx.

Can't tell you the number of times I walk through phantom poo smells through out DCon.

[alexdelarge78.livejournal.com]

That's highly amusing.

Not sure you can regulate human functions to that degree. It's almost light asking the sun not to complete its cycle.

O fucking KAY!!!

[crazeyal.livejournal.com]

I am a con attendee of 20 years or so.

I have dealt with. SMELT with and (unfortunately BEEN) the person (s) that are being bandied so much about.

*sigh*

I simply *HAVE* to say this.

Why in the world do geeks bash geeks so damn much??

The people who forget basic hygene? 1 in a hundred when you are on the floor. Gaming floor?? 1 in twenty - thirty... And it's NOT that all of them forget to bathe.. it's a LONG DAMN DAY and you spend SIX FRIGGEN HOURS in a small room, drinking caffiene and the air conditioning fails? YOU SWEAT!!!

There will ALWAYS be people with no social skills and/or poor hygene. Especialy at events that attract Social misfits. We, as a group, do not do that. The people who do, are E-X-C-E-P-T-I-O-N-S...

I know one person can horrify HUNDREDS...

But GODDAMN PEOPLE... We get enough flak from the NORMS!!!

Please recognise the fact that the people who don't bathe are NOT THE NORM!!

Re: O fucking KAY!!!

[paladyn.livejournal.com]

Why in the world do geeks bash geeks so damn much??

Because we're pissed off at people who end up giving other geeks a bad name. Nothing quite like poor behavior to draw negative attention to a particular social group.

[deborak]

If you are bumped or jostled, please be gracious and accept the apology offered by the person who inadvertantly stepped on you because you were sitting on the floor with your legs splayed out into the hallway. Don't screech at them repeatedly as if they came all the way to D*C just to abuse you. :/

In other words, "I'm sorry" and "my bad" go well together at con, especially in crowded situations.

Phones

[sinomerae.livejournal.com]

I have a rule.

No phonecalls during panels! Please! It may be important, but if it is, you can take it outside. That's what the door is for, blocking outside noise, like phonecalls.

Re: Phones

[rozhena-ashford.livejournal.com]

Addendum to this: PLEASE put the phone on vibrate when you go into a panel!