The SF3 Board's An Apology

[james_davis_nicoll]

The SF3 Board extends heartfelt apologies to those who have been harassed at WisCon, to those who feel unsafe at WisCon, to the ConCom, and to our wider community, for letting you down. We regret allowing Rose Lemberg’s report to languish.

Comments

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

What's the count up to now?

Something about "quality over quantity" comes to mind.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I no longer attend enough conventions to make no never-mind, but my guess is that WisCon is probably the safest convenion of its size in the country (and I don't limit this to Science-Fiction Conventions, assuming that the one of Baptist Ministers' Wives is somewhat smaller). Frankly, I think that if they continue to (as they seem to be doing) attempt to make it _absolutely Safe_ they'll descend into total collapse. But then, I also think that it's impossible to get more than about fifty people together without having at least one knucklehead, and that it's irrational (& maybe even knuckleheaded) to believe otherwise.

For Full Disclosure: If memory serves, I've attended two WisCons and one or two other cons in Madison put on by pretty much the same people. They were delightful, but I don't expect to get back there because I'm getting too old to cope with air travel and because having become "profoundly deaf" has seriously diminished my pleasure in the con experience. Also, being totally deaf has caused me to pay a lot more visual attention to the people around me, and I suppose that would freak-out at least one or two WisCon attendees.