I second the compliments. I'm pretty sure that a decade or so down the road, some grad student will be using your chapters to illustrate the sociology of internet communities or something in his/her thesis. I mean, it's an amazingly well-put-together, well-explained archive of the historical record.
I've heard rumblings about this whole thing and I can't wait to dive in and read the whole thing. I printed out all 2,945 pages and will read it and be shocked, I'm sure.
It's all Ari_O's fault.exmiscellaneaJuly 2 2006, 17:23:49 UTC
If the Security Chief at Nimbus had been doing her job , this whole saga may have ended a lot earlier. How hard would it have been to make a phone call to the police to check the story. This is not a case of whether you believed the story or not , but simple fact checking which anyone running security for any kind of convention should have done.
Re: It's all Ari_O's fault.mcnuggetsMarch 24 2007, 19:13:09 UTC
I don't think it's fair to blame ari_o, for assuming that no friend of hers would put her through all the trouble of filtering guest lists simply to gain more attention. Hindsight's 20/20.
Re: It's all Ari_O's fault.exmiscellaneaMarch 24 2007, 19:28:13 UTC
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I don't think it's fair to blame ari_o, for assuming that no friend of hers would put her through all the trouble of filtering guest lists simply to gain more attention. Hindsight's 20/20.
Re: It's all Ari_O's fault.exmiscellaneaMarch 24 2007, 19:36:08 UTC
I can only go by my experiences with Gaming Conventions here in Australia. If any of the people running security at a convention was given a similar story , they would have checked. Alternatively , you make a report to the local police , in case there is an incident. As most of these conventions were held on the grounds of a high-school , any such incidents would have been checked. No-one would have considered it was a friend seeking to gain more attention.
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I second the compliments. I'm pretty sure that a decade or so down the road, some grad student will be using your chapters to illustrate the sociology of internet communities or something in his/her thesis. I mean, it's an amazingly well-put-together, well-explained archive of the historical record.
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Thanks for all the time you put into this.
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this whole saga may have ended a lot earlier.
How hard would it have been to make a phone call to the police to check the story.
This is not a case of whether you believed the story or not ,
but simple fact checking which anyone running security for any kind of convention should have done.
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I don't think it's fair to blame ari_o, for assuming that no friend of hers would put her through all the trouble of filtering guest lists simply to gain more attention.
Hindsight's 20/20.
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If any of the people running security at a convention was given a similar story ,
they would have checked.
Alternatively , you make a report to the local police , in case there is an incident.
As most of these conventions were held on the grounds of a high-school ,
any such incidents would have been checked.
No-one would have considered it was a friend seeking to gain more attention.
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