Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:53:10 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What shpuld Capclave be?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 05:49 PM 03/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>Candy Madigan wrote:
>
> > At 02:56 AM 03/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >Why do you want to "swell the throng"?  More bodies don't guarantee a
> better
> > >convention.   I think Capclave should find and exploit an underused niche
> > >and
> > >not try to be All Cons For All People.   And it seems to me that
> Capclave #1
> > >has
> > >already moved promisingly in that direction.
> > >
> > >--Ted White
> > >
> > >I believe the saying is, "The more, the merrier."  Cons are for people.
> >
> > I have to weigh in with Lee on this one.
>
>Why?  Is this some Eternal Verity?  So far there has been no substantive
>discussion of this issue -- just emotional assertions.

I like attending bigger cons.  It's that simple.

Worldcon size is overwhelming, but 500- 700 is a nice number.  I like
meeting new people.  At a 150 person convention I have a total of 150
potential new people to meet.   Half of those I already know, of the 75
left over, only a few of those look like the kind of people I want to hang
with.  I don't happen to hang with gamers and frankly, I'm enough of a snob
that I don't want to hang with losers (and you have to admit it, but most
fen start out as losers and many never move past that) so that gives me a
very small group as potential new friends.

A larger con will have the same mix, but my potential friend list goes
up.  At too large a con, I can't weed the potential friends out of the rest
of the mix, so that is why I like conventions of over 500 and less than 1000.