Previously mentioned in this community was an incident of harassment at Readercon that was reported to the board. Note that they have a zero-tolerance policy wherein harassers are life-banned from the con.
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there is a follow-up post regarding what the board decided to do about it. Unlike previous incidents that went according to their policy
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Anyway, I wanted to add that wouldn't someone knowing they did something wrong be worse than someone who was clueless? I've been wondering that since the whole thing came out a week ago and I still just don't understand them.
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Apparently no one told the Readercon board that harassers and abusers like to gain positions of authority so they can get away with their harassment and/or abuse, or that they're always really sorry when someone catches them and generally sufficiently convincing that people do stupid things like send them to another place with the same position of authority. Maybe they don't read the papers or something.
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Were I not broke and on the other side of the country, I'd be there in person to hand them out. At the con.
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But that's the nature of tumblr. The only place with more profoundly dumb/contrary/mean people I've found is Youtube.
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