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hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-07-27 08:27 pm
hawkwing_lb) wrote2012-07-27 08:27 pm
some thoughts on why I don't think I'd visit Readercon, now
So I was thinking about maybe going to Readercon next year, if it turned out that the incoming funds gave me enough leeway to fly to Boston. People had told me it was awesome.
After this?
Nope. Definitely not conventioneering. My handful of experiences with Organised Fandom En Masse in the past have proved tremendously alienating. I've no intention of coupling that with a convention whose managing board can't even be arsed to explain why it isn't following its own stated policies on harrassment. (Zero-tolerance policies have their own problems, but a two-year ban isn't even a slap on the wrist. And zero-tolerance is the policy they have. Retroactive rewriting is not good.)
Which is sad, because flights to Boston are cheap, relatively speaking, and so many lovely people who I'd like to see live in the Americas and get together for conventions.
Maybe there should be an alternate party. In protest.
After this?
Nope. Definitely not conventioneering. My handful of experiences with Organised Fandom En Masse in the past have proved tremendously alienating. I've no intention of coupling that with a convention whose managing board can't even be arsed to explain why it isn't following its own stated policies on harrassment. (Zero-tolerance policies have their own problems, but a two-year ban isn't even a slap on the wrist. And zero-tolerance is the policy they have. Retroactive rewriting is not good.)
Which is sad, because flights to Boston are cheap, relatively speaking, and so many lovely people who I'd like to see live in the Americas and get together for conventions.
Maybe there should be an alternate party. In protest.
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rosefox.livejournal.com/1763288.html
If this was "put on the agenda wiki" a week ago and this is the response just now....yeah. (And the baord's response is CLEARLY only because glvalentine made public the decision when they told her, and people were really upset about it, anyway. Otherwise it might just have kept on being on the agenda wiki....forever!) I mean, I really can understand someone not wanting to just walk away from their baby, but....yeah.
(Also I just think there's a big difference between....'where people treat one another with respect and courtesy' and 'appropriate consequences for repeated harassment.' I don't know.)
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Personally? I think substantiated reports of harassment merit a five-year ban in the first instance, a ten-year ban in the second, and a lifetime ban in the third. That lets a 20-year-old Nice Guy learn better by the time he's 35. But shit, Readercon, that's not how you wrote your policy.