From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What shpuld Capclave be?
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:54:27 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I'll agree with Ted on this one.  Too many cons have had too much
trouble by becoming meeting places for unrelated groups -- drunk
unattended teenagers, Goths, S&M types, gamers, LARPs, you name it.
Problem is not just that "they're not our type" -- they're not each
others' type either.  You end up with large indigestible lumps of people
who actively dislike each other.

Capclave had an excellent mix of people.  Everybody seemed to talk to
everybody else.  Everybody seemed to have a good time.  We need to keep
this and build on it, and not just start taking out newspaper ads.

--
Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."

Yes, I agree with you also - I do not want large indescriminate hoards of
assholes at the cons I go to - but I also find that having new people at
cons keeps them fresh and boring.  You've got it right, Steve - take it
small, build it quietly.

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