Sorry, but I can't blame the economy on either con drama.
BayCon's problems are old. They're the same problems BayCon had when the economy was booming. It's just a new group of people who got sick of reassurances that rarely turned out to be true.
Silicon's current problems are new-ish (at least they date to this incarnation). Silicon keeps trying and failing to be BayCon, rather than figuring out what Silicon should really be and becoming good at that (at the moment, a good 600-person convention rather than an under-attended failed 2000-person convention).
While the big problems with Baycon have been chronic, the thing that is being pointed to as the straw that broke the camel's back is financial. Because of the chronic issues, Baycon just doesn't have much leeway when the going get actually tough instead of artificially tough
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BayCon's problems are old. They're the same problems BayCon had when the economy was booming. It's just a new group of people who got sick of reassurances that rarely turned out to be true.
Silicon's current problems are new-ish (at least they date to this incarnation). Silicon keeps trying and failing to be BayCon, rather than figuring out what Silicon should really be and becoming good at that (at the moment, a good 600-person convention rather than an under-attended failed 2000-person convention).
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