I did not say I did or did not like them. The requirement of the booster and the timing of more than 14 days out simply means I am not eligible to attend. As noted I have an attending membership, we had hotel reservations. reserved a rental car and had planned a nice road trip. The booster requirement is such than neither my husband or I can attend.
And yes, tone matters. Tone mattes a lot when one is promoting one's event. The tone from the November event - with virtually the same requirements - was welcoming and invoking community. Tonopah's tone has been Draconian and off-putting. When an event wants both cooperation and attendance then invoking community for cooperation is going to work in their favor while threats work against the convention's ultimate success. Tis is likely less important for a one-off event but it is still a valid observation for con running.
The committee may have had adult discussion but this post seems to indicate that what the committee wanted was the only criteria that was considered. Again, one cannot have a convention without having both committee and attendees which does require acknowledging that there are, apparently, viewpoints other than the committee members that are equally valid in terms of a COVID policy.
Adult conversation is that which does not descend into personal attacks - as below - and canned attack rhetoric that has nothing to do with what I actually said. Two events, similar attendance numbers, very similar COVID requirements wee compared to be met with Short form: "I don't wanna vax and mask! Waaaaah! You talked mean to meee! I don't care who I kill, I wanna have fuuuun!" which is designed to do nothing but shut down actual conversation and, to be honest, leads me to also suspect you did not read what was actually written but decided to respond based on what you assumed I said.
If we cannot talk to each other without descending into personal attacks and mocking just because there are differing opinions on how to handle a particular issue then fandom is doomed to die
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Re: Sarcastic translation of a wall of text
Date: 2022-06-11 09:44 am (UTC)And yes, tone matters. Tone mattes a lot when one is promoting one's event. The tone from the November event - with virtually the same requirements - was welcoming and invoking community. Tonopah's tone has been Draconian and off-putting. When an event wants both cooperation and attendance then invoking community for cooperation is going to work in their favor while threats work against the convention's ultimate success. Tis is likely less important for a one-off event but it is still a valid observation for con running.
The committee may have had adult discussion but this post seems to indicate that what the committee wanted was the only criteria that was considered. Again, one cannot have a convention without having both committee and attendees which does require acknowledging that there are, apparently, viewpoints other than the committee members that are equally valid in terms of a COVID policy.
Adult conversation is that which does not descend into personal attacks - as below - and canned attack rhetoric that has nothing to do with what I actually said. Two events, similar attendance numbers, very similar COVID requirements wee compared to be met with Short form: "I don't wanna vax and mask! Waaaaah! You talked mean to meee! I don't care who I kill, I wanna have fuuuun!" which is designed to do nothing but shut down actual conversation and, to be honest, leads me to also suspect you did not read what was actually written but decided to respond based on what you assumed I said.
If we cannot talk to each other without descending into personal attacks and mocking just because there are differing opinions on how to handle a particular issue then fandom is doomed to die