More Badgering

[kevin_standlee]

I'm afraid that jorhett has written us off and has taken everything more personally than he should, which is unfortunate, but meanwhile the SMOFS e-mail list is merrily burbling away discussing the idea of photo-ID badges -- which nobody over there considers a good idea, either, it seems. Michael Walsh applied a bit of Google-fu, and found the following:

Evecon 4 badge
Evecon 5 badge
Evecon 6 badge
Evecon 7 badge

jorhett claims I'm misquoting him, which is certainly possible. Indeed, it's perfectly possible that what he said was not exactly what I heard. However, he has not responded to my offer to print a correction if he'd tell us what exactly he says he said, but has instead apparently stormed off in a huff. Possibly it surprises people that I don't claim to be infallible, it being oh-so-fannish to never admit being wrong and to assume that one's own experiences are the entire universe.

Seriously, I can state things pretty confidently sometimes. I'm perfectly aware that this comes across as arrogance to some people.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

#5 in particular is uglier than sin.

And ... we've found something worse than photo ID badges, worse even than the cleverly unreadable background on the unphoto'd #4: having attendees hand-print their own names. Wow. Just ... wow.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

Every time I have to hand print my badge, I'm a little surprised. But I've done it at cons as recently as less than a year ago (Bubonicon 38 in Albuquerque). I also remember having to do it at my first, or first couple of Windycons, which would have been around 1993 or 1994.

For at least a few of the reasons that kevin_standlee references in the Argentus article, having the name printed by the convention by some mechanical means is necessary. IMHO, as someone who doesn't like looking at his own printing, the only purpose it isn't necessary for is the "other" function.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that's just funny, Tom and Don's Evecon badges...

...though I think the moiré effect badge for #4 (without any photo) is much uglier and less useful.