Conquest: Not My Fault
Conquest has seriously pissed me off this year. I've been right on the edge of cancelling my games (which would seem to hardly matter at the moment, as so few people are signed up, but I really don't like the idea of cancelling).
Anybody notice that there was no sign of one of my blurbs on the website until a week after all the others went up? That' ( Read more... )
The webmaster did send me an email asking for my blurb in another format. That bit wasn't the problem. The problem was that she didn't do this until all of the other blurbs were up (that is, four weeks before the convention). All of the materials incoming from writers should have been checked for usability before building anything (or checked as they came in - there's a lot of work in building a con website with blurbs that look good, and you're much better off handling blurbs individually as the writers get them in so you aren't swamped at the last minute). That way you are using the turnaround time for anything with a problem to build other pages.
Unfortunately the problem was compounded by her request reaching me while my computer was away undergoing repairs. I was saying things like, "Well, there's online back-ups, so I can possibly get the files, but there's not much I can do with them on an iPad." (Between that and email confusion, it was two days until something she could use was sent to her.) But the delay there should have been nothing in the grand scheme of things. A week in late January wouldn't have mattered so much, but a week in March for an early April convention is terrible.
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