I'd correct "anyone who hasn't grown up with it" to "anyone who's grown up with something else." The obvious sticking point is in his conversation with the other author, where what she doesn't communicate to him is that everybody, including the authors, goes to cons primarily to enjoy themselves. That authors get to call it "work" and take it off their taxes (actually, I don't know if UK taxes operate that way) is gravy. The work stuff - promotion, contacts - is embedded in the fun.
I'm particularly numbed by the fact that he can't figure out that there's one name for the series of conventions and another name for each individual one. I want to tell him: It's like naming individual episodes of a TV show, you clown. There are plenty of professional conferences that do the same thing.
(And is that "Jim" in his post title a Star Trek allusion? He seems to be capable of thinking like we do ...)
I've suspected that a lot of the demands by Worldcon neos that we instantly reconfigure our entire system to fit their expectations is because they have preset expectations from some other fandom, where they're already BNFs and expect to have everything their way.
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Date: 2013-09-23 03:15 pm (UTC)I'm particularly numbed by the fact that he can't figure out that there's one name for the series of conventions and another name for each individual one. I want to tell him: It's like naming individual episodes of a TV show, you clown. There are plenty of professional conferences that do the same thing.
(And is that "Jim" in his post title a Star Trek allusion? He seems to be capable of thinking like we do ...)
I've suspected that a lot of the demands by Worldcon neos that we instantly reconfigure our entire system to fit their expectations is because they have preset expectations from some other fandom, where they're already BNFs and expect to have everything their way.