Ah, good point. The material in my entry above is not nearly as chronological as it may appear from reading them. Dave had something of a right to be defensive when people wanted to slag him for errors made by others for which he had no responsibility.
I'd like to think (but can't be sure) that if I was in the same position, I would try not address too many specifics, while saying, "We will make a good-faith effort to not repeat known erros, while working from our past strengths." (Yes, I know that sounds like a platitude.)
Unfortunately, rehashing obvious known errors in detail -- and someone dredged up stuff from MidAmeriCon's Masquerade as a fairly harsh question tossed at Kansas City -- is probably not hugely productive in these Inquisition panels.
Trust me, I Feel the Pain of people sitting up their on the Fannish Inquisition. One thing that I thought valuable was for our committee to role-play an FI session, because internally we almost always could come up with much nastier questions than anyone is likely to ask, and we could work out diplomatic replies to most of them. This made the actual Inquisition seem less difficult.
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Date: 2005-12-04 09:37 pm (UTC)I'd like to think (but can't be sure) that if I was in the same position, I would try not address too many specifics, while saying, "We will make a good-faith effort to not repeat known erros, while working from our past strengths." (Yes, I know that sounds like a platitude.)
Unfortunately, rehashing obvious known errors in detail -- and someone dredged up stuff from MidAmeriCon's Masquerade as a fairly harsh question tossed at Kansas City -- is probably not hugely productive in these Inquisition panels.
Trust me, I Feel the Pain of people sitting up their on the Fannish Inquisition. One thing that I thought valuable was for our committee to role-play an FI session, because internally we almost always could come up with much nastier questions than anyone is likely to ask, and we could work out diplomatic replies to most of them. This made the actual Inquisition seem less difficult.