As Others Might See Us

[coalescent]

On the Eastercon mailing list today:
I have read the draft programme for Odyssey over the weekend and am dismayed at the number of bondage workshops which appear. I feel most strongly that they give the wrong impression of the convention, have nothing to do with science fiction and have no place at an Eastercon. [...] Most people are broad-minded

Comments

[ninebelow]

This will be my first Eastercon and this is definitely the sort of stuff that puts me off. If you programme lots of things which are essentially "things people in fandom like" rather than anything actually to do with SF then you are aren't going to draw anyone else in and you are going to end up with a stagnant fandom.

[gaspode]

I'd look at the program

Peopel are talking about 5 or six items (which should of been (and will be) Scheduled later out of well over two hundred ....

[ninebelow]

I've seen the programme. It isn't very exciting. And yes, I can count.

[annafdd]

Frankly, it never is. Most of the panels I have found interesting are made so by the panelists and/or the public. A lot of fantastic programming turns out to be crap and boring and vice versa. Nowadays I mostly follow interesting people.

[ninebelow]

I've been told a con is best experienced via the bar. I look forward to finding out.

[filkerdave]

I've never been to an Eastercon, but the longer I'm in fandom, the less time I spend actually going to program items I'm not on and the more time I spend hanging out drinking with my friends

[annafdd]

The bar is the place where you get to notice a sudden influx of very excited people who will tell you all about The Best Item of the Con which you decided not to go to.

At least that's what always happens to me.

[secritcrush]

At least there's always booze at the bar even if the conversation is boring...