I'm not a mod. I'm not staff. I'm just another member. Sure, I do a lot of the tagging, but that's part of my personal honor code of "contribute to my community in a useful way, lest I lose any right to crab about the conditions".
A few folks may recall my saying, during those post-convention conversations you remember from last September (http://dragoncon.livejournal.com/2537109.html?thread=27282069#t27282069) that I'm opposed to the "frakkin' tourists" being at our Dragon*Con. I carried on a bit about it.
But, speaking as just another member: I'm kind of skeeved about that edit up top. I respectfully and even affectionately ask you to revise it.
I agree with you that we've got a great community discussion going on here. One of the conditions that make it great is that more than one opinion is being rationally represented, and in large numbers. To whit, we've got a lot of posts saying that the issues have already been addressed, and are being addressed still, by Dragon*Con staff; we've got posts relating that others' experiences with specific hotels' staffs have been positive toward D*C conventioneers, or neutral, or negative, or mixed; we've got people talking about what is and what is not a reasonable expectation of hotel and convention security for standards of keeping us safe.
I don't think encouraging people to flood the D*C Contact Form with a copy-and-paste of your original destructively-critical post is a reasonable outgrowth of this discussion. How about a variation with constructive criticism, including measures you'd be willing to support with your own time or resources? Would you, say, be willing to spring for minutes on prepaid cheaptastic cell phones, attached to a Google Number listed on the back of every member badge, that routes directly to D*C Security? Will you pledge two hours of your time as a Goon Squad minion, with no expectation of a cut in your registration price or any other benefit, even if it's two of the hours that your favorite Guest is going to be available for autographs? I'm just saying, your barrage to Security about wanting this year to be better is going to get you more net results if you include yourself in "how to make it better" rather than pointing as many scowls as you can gather at the people who're supposed to solve it.
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Hey, uhm, about that Edit to the OP:
Date: 2011-05-25 11:38 pm (UTC)A few folks may recall my saying, during those post-convention conversations you remember from last September (http://dragoncon.livejournal.com/2537109.html?thread=27282069#t27282069) that I'm opposed to the "frakkin' tourists" being at our Dragon*Con. I carried on a bit about it.
But, speaking as just another member: I'm kind of skeeved about that edit up top. I respectfully and even affectionately ask you to revise it.
I agree with you that we've got a great community discussion going on here. One of the conditions that make it great is that more than one opinion is being rationally represented, and in large numbers. To whit, we've got a lot of posts saying that the issues have already been addressed, and are being addressed still, by Dragon*Con staff; we've got posts relating that others' experiences with specific hotels' staffs have been positive toward D*C conventioneers, or neutral, or negative, or mixed; we've got people talking about what is and what is not a reasonable expectation of hotel and convention security for standards of keeping us safe.
I don't think encouraging people to flood the D*C Contact Form with a copy-and-paste of your original destructively-critical post is a reasonable outgrowth of this discussion. How about a variation with constructive criticism, including measures you'd be willing to support with your own time or resources? Would you, say, be willing to spring for minutes on prepaid cheaptastic cell phones, attached to a Google Number listed on the back of every member badge, that routes directly to D*C Security? Will you pledge two hours of your time as a Goon Squad minion, with no expectation of a cut in your registration price or any other benefit, even if it's two of the hours that your favorite Guest is going to be available for autographs?
I'm just saying, your barrage to Security about wanting this year to be better is going to get you more net results if you include yourself in "how to make it better" rather than pointing as many scowls as you can gather at the people who're supposed to solve it.