How to be not on a panel

[kilbswhitecrow]

At Olympus, I was speaking to one person who was attending his first Eastercon. He was having a great time, the programme was fabulous and he found the panels really interesting and engaging --- "but I don't get the audience," he said. "There are some people who seem to think that there's no-one in the room but them and the panel."

True. And it's

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[alex_holden]

There was somebody in The Imaginary Gripe Session who waffled meaninglessly for about two minutes before finishing with something to the effect of: "I wish to complain in the strongest terms about audience members whose questions go on and on without ever getting to the point."

[kilbswhitecrow]

Nice. :-)

[tlanti]

Good points about panels! :)

I remember one Redemption panel I was at quite a while ago where I kept trying to speak and got ignored, then other people noticed what was going on... so I found a way to speak up and got a round of applause for doing so!

[kilbswhitecrow]

I've noticed that other people are often less tolerant of this kind of behaviour these days. I've seen other audience members telling the obnoxious ones to wait their turn like everyone else.

[multiclassgeek]

It's not just Conventions... I can't speak for any other Skeptics in the Pub branch, but Westminister has a lot of people who use the Q&A after a talk as their own personal platform to rant/ramble.

My rule of thumb is if you can't fit your question into a Tweet, it's probably too long.

[kilbswhitecrow]

Good rule of thumb!