Ok, first I took the liberty of posting my own spare change on ghosting in general and the fuckwit fivesome pictured in particular. Then I wandered over to the City Pages website version of the article about CONvergence and shared my thoughts on ghosting with special emphasis on our special friend. Complete with link to image. Here's a link to the article http://www.citypages.com/2009-07-08/news/at-convergence-the-weird-gets-weirder/1
Now if someone could just tell me Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is up that my journal drops most of a page before showing the pic I'd be a very happy bunny indeed.
Seriously, can anyone give me one good reason why the parties AREN"T badged? Anyone at all? I'll tell you what, I run a shit-ton of gaming events every year and from here on out I've got me a new rule; no matter where the event is taking place No Badge No Game.
Ok, getting a serious case of clue impairment here. How is that extra liability? But if that is the case then what's to stop the individual rooms from carding for badges the way they do for ID's ? I mean if it isn't concom policy but rather something the rooms elect to do on their own woud there be additional liability there? Seriously curious because I've been doing this convention for 10 years, volunteering for 7 and one of the last things I want to see is the parties ruined by a bunch of ghosting twits who just come to crash the parties and score free booze. I can see the phrase "horribly awry" coming into play in a big way there
Absolutely nothing stops the individual room parties from badging if they so wish, and the con supports parties in their badging if they choose to do so. Yay, parties that badge. So much yay. However, making the parties badged space means making the convention at large liable for what happens in the parties, including if someone say, drinks too much and then drives. It's a lot like childcare. It seems like a great idea until you think of the insurance headaches that would be required to allow it.
I seem to have missed something. Did the other four also exhibit this horrid behavior? If not, then they should NOT be "guilty by association." In fact, they might not like him either.
ethel's original post just describes the one as the person causing the problems. No mention of the others. And I'd be really upset if I was one of those other four if I was NOT involved in active ghosting, bullying, etc. And having my face plastered all over the net under a false charge would really cause me to look closely at those involved in slandering me. In fact, depending on how I felt, I might even be inclined to pursue legal action on this - if in fact I was innocent of the charges.
Ethel and I only had experience with the one guy on the left. I will point out that the original poster of the photo spoke in the plural as to their behavior at the party that he was working at. That is, of course, simply what he says, and we can only see what's in the photo, so maybe the others have badges hidden under their clothes or behind them. I know for a fact the guy in the shorts and white shirt did not have one though.
However, I'm pretty darn sure that no one has ever successfully won a case in the courts based on "Someone called me a douchebag on the intartubez."
How could he bury CONvergence in legal bullshit? If anyone, he'd bury me.
I think he wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court and that there wouldn't be huge fees, even if he did complain and it did get that far. I'm willing to roll the dice.
if you really want to turn this into a website, you could call it something like Con Douchebags? www.condouchebags.net or something. i bet that shit could go huge, actually...
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Now if someone could just tell me Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is up that my journal drops most of a page before showing the pic I'd be a very happy bunny indeed.
Seriously, can anyone give me one good reason why the parties AREN"T badged? Anyone at all? I'll tell you what, I run a shit-ton of gaming events every year and from here on out I've got me a new rule; no matter where the event is taking place No Badge No Game.
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However, making the parties badged space means making the convention at large liable for what happens in the parties, including if someone say, drinks too much and then drives. It's a lot like childcare. It seems like a great idea until you think of the insurance headaches that would be required to allow it.
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ethel's original post just describes the one as the person causing the problems. No mention of the others. And I'd be really upset if I was one of those other four if I was NOT involved in active ghosting, bullying, etc. And having my face plastered all over the net under a false charge would really cause me to look closely at those involved in slandering me. In fact, depending on how I felt, I might even be inclined to pursue legal action on this - if in fact I was innocent of the charges.
Just sayin...
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I will point out that the original poster of the photo spoke in the plural as to their behavior at the party that he was working at. That is, of course, simply what he says, and we can only see what's in the photo, so maybe the others have badges hidden under their clothes or behind them. I know for a fact the guy in the shorts and white shirt did not have one though.
However, I'm pretty darn sure that no one has ever successfully won a case in the courts based on "Someone called me a douchebag on the intartubez."
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I think he wouldn't have a leg to stand on in court and that there wouldn't be huge fees, even if he did complain and it did get that far. I'm willing to roll the dice.
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