Ok, first I took the liberty of posting my own spare change on ghosting in general and the fuckwit fivesome pictured in particular. Then I wandered over to the City Pages website version of the article about CONvergence and shared my thoughts on ghosting with special emphasis on our special friend. Complete with link to image. Here's a link to the article http://www.citypages.com/2009-07-08/news/at-convergence-the-weird-gets-weirder/1
Now if someone could just tell me Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is up that my journal drops most of a page before showing the pic I'd be a very happy bunny indeed.
Seriously, can anyone give me one good reason why the parties AREN"T badged? Anyone at all? I'll tell you what, I run a shit-ton of gaming events every year and from here on out I've got me a new rule; no matter where the event is taking place No Badge No Game.
Ok, getting a serious case of clue impairment here. How is that extra liability? But if that is the case then what's to stop the individual rooms from carding for badges the way they do for ID's ? I mean if it isn't concom policy but rather something the rooms elect to do on their own woud there be additional liability there? Seriously curious because I've been doing this convention for 10 years, volunteering for 7 and one of the last things I want to see is the parties ruined by a bunch of ghosting twits who just come to crash the parties and score free booze. I can see the phrase "horribly awry" coming into play in a big way there
Absolutely nothing stops the individual room parties from badging if they so wish, and the con supports parties in their badging if they choose to do so. Yay, parties that badge. So much yay. However, making the parties badged space means making the convention at large liable for what happens in the parties, including if someone say, drinks too much and then drives. It's a lot like childcare. It seems like a great idea until you think of the insurance headaches that would be required to allow it.
This liability reason is not confirmed and will be examined before next year. "Examined" in this case means "by the board" and including "consultation with counsel."
But yes, I appreciate the contributions of our parties to the convention; and I think it's especially cool and showing an even further dimension of taking ownership when they choose to badge.
I stand corrected, but with the excuse that this was always the short version of the reasons why it was done this way so far, and by no means that it will be now and forever so.
Now if someone could just tell me Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is up that my journal drops most of a page before showing the pic I'd be a very happy bunny indeed.
Seriously, can anyone give me one good reason why the parties AREN"T badged? Anyone at all? I'll tell you what, I run a shit-ton of gaming events every year and from here on out I've got me a new rule; no matter where the event is taking place No Badge No Game.
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However, making the parties badged space means making the convention at large liable for what happens in the parties, including if someone say, drinks too much and then drives. It's a lot like childcare. It seems like a great idea until you think of the insurance headaches that would be required to allow it.
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But yes, I appreciate the contributions of our parties to the convention; and I think it's especially cool and showing an even further dimension of taking ownership when they choose to badge.
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