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I've Had Better Days
Jan. 23rd, 2013 06:32 pmIt's very disheartening to see things you've worked on for most of your life rubbished by people who are convinced they know much better and that could certainly do a much better job of it if they could only be bothered to do so, but they have better things to do with their time.
( You probably don't need to read this, but I had to get it out of my system )
I invite every person who has a complaint about how Worldcons are organized to put themselves in the Chair's seat and say, "How would I run this?" Extra points for saying how you would do it in practical terms, especially if what you want to do costs either money or people points. And if you have a Grand Scheme that will use a significant amount of the convention's resources, explain how you plan to guarantee that you won't bankrupt your convention and cause a bankruptcy court to decide that you didn't exercise due care, thereby "pierce your corporate veil," going after your personal assets, not just the convention's.
When you've done that, you might think through why Worldcons are notoriously conservative organizations. They simply can't afford to take large risks. Small ones (a hundred dollars or so to pay for the online text coverage of the Hugo Awards), yes. Large ones ($200K in a mass media campaign in the local area that will "pay for itself" by drawing an extra 2000 members to the convention), no.
( You probably don't need to read this, but I had to get it out of my system )
I invite every person who has a complaint about how Worldcons are organized to put themselves in the Chair's seat and say, "How would I run this?" Extra points for saying how you would do it in practical terms, especially if what you want to do costs either money or people points. And if you have a Grand Scheme that will use a significant amount of the convention's resources, explain how you plan to guarantee that you won't bankrupt your convention and cause a bankruptcy court to decide that you didn't exercise due care, thereby "pierce your corporate veil," going after your personal assets, not just the convention's.
When you've done that, you might think through why Worldcons are notoriously conservative organizations. They simply can't afford to take large risks. Small ones (a hundred dollars or so to pay for the online text coverage of the Hugo Awards), yes. Large ones ($200K in a mass media campaign in the local area that will "pay for itself" by drawing an extra 2000 members to the convention), no.
