Meanwhile, I'd like to remind people that "professional/amateur" and "professionally/amateurishly" are different things -- in fact, they probably form a 2x2 grid. Either kind of event is capable of treating people in either way.
Yes, that, exactly. And it goes both ways, too - if the organizers of an event are behaving in a professional manner, they deserve the same treatment in return.
I'm one of the people who get the dmv@burningman bounce. We had a letter come through, some three weeks after the application deadline (Mutant Vehicles go through a pre-screening process before the event), that basically amounted to "O HAI I MAED U A ART CAR." My response, in part, read "Simply because we are a volunteer organization does not mean we don't handle things professionally. If you were attempting to contact the real Department of Motor Vehicles, would you have used l33t-speak?"
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Yes, that, exactly. And it goes both ways, too - if the organizers of an event are behaving in a professional manner, they deserve the same treatment in return.
I'm one of the people who get the dmv@burningman bounce. We had a letter come through, some three weeks after the application deadline (Mutant Vehicles go through a pre-screening process before the event), that basically amounted to "O HAI I MAED U A ART CAR." My response, in part, read "Simply because we are a volunteer organization does not mean we don't handle things professionally. If you were attempting to contact the real Department of Motor Vehicles, would you have used l33t-speak?"