Constaff: Getting messages to non subscribed furs?
Posted by Berner on Fri, 2007-06-15 11:41
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Hey guys. I was wondering something. What are you planning on doing about getting certain rules out to the non forum subscribed furs who are going to AC? For example, stuff like the "No signs on your door" rule that the hotel is enforcing, and anything else that may have changed this year? Dobe |
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The same thing we do every year: put them on the receipts that people get, in the conbook, and on the website.
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We also have a large poster with the standards of conduct printed on it right next to Registration. Everyone who picks up a badge signs a statement that he or she has read and agrees to abide by those standards.
Thus, we do not accept "I didn't know it was against the rules" as an excuse.
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Might I suggest?
Last year, when I checked in for my room, the receptionist had a one-page notice which was handed to me, along with my key cards. It was essentially a welcoming message, with one or two cautions or restrictions enumerated, I forget the particular details - but might this be a perfect place and means to reinforce the message? Right as people have their first contact with hotel authority, as they sign for their room?
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permalinkThat would add a whole other layer of complications, since that would rely on ADDING WORK for the hotel's front desk staff, who would now have to determine who's going to the con, and who isn't, when checking in.
The rules are already on the website, in the conbook-thus handed out at registration, and on a big sign at registration. Why should that not be considered sufficient?
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permalinkLocation: Roseville, CA, USA
Our convention staff (and I don't mean to slip into the posessive, they are AnthroCon's staff) have many years of experience among them in this business. I have no doubt that they have covered all the bases that the organisation could be expected to cover - perhaps more than many another collection of convention organisers.
...But there was just something in the way that Uncle Kage phrased it - that bit about "didn't know the rules" won't work as an excuse - that made me shudder. The point isn't to eliminate potential excuses, the point is to prevent the undesirable behavior from occuring in the first place.
1 - there a people who will come, who never visit this website.
2 - a goodly portion of the Con-books are scanned through for programming info and maybe a map, and then are tucked away as souveniers (however you spell that word), and are certainly never _read_.
3 - it is a sad fact that signage tends to be invisible to many a mind. People can walk by and stare at signs that say "Flash Flood - Road Closed" or "Max Speed in Turn - 15 MPH" or "DO NOT PUT HANDS INSIDE CAGE" or "DANGER - steep cliff - Stay Behind Railing"...well, you get the idea.
It was merely a suggestion - a xeroxed sheet from the hotel desk, AT the hotel desk, stating what the hotel wishes of its honored and valued guests. While AnthroCon can only do so much directly to inform its attendees, that extra layer, politely provided by the party that has a direct interest in protecting its property in the first place, could not possibly hurt. And a simple, diplomatic message apologising for the inability to accept our traditional signs, with asuggestion of an alternative, would be neither insulting nor unexpected, and if phrased right, doesn't make us look like untamed barbarians to any other guest who happens to see one of these flyers at the desk.
*sighs* - it was just a thought. I don't run conventions, so I don't really know. I withdraw the suggestion; please forget that I posted it.
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permalinkYou can't hit everyone. If the rules are in the con book its up to the person attending to KNOW the rules not staff to keep pointing them out until everyone knows them. No doubt someone is going to tape up a sign and hotel staff will remove it. *shrugs* That's the attendee's fault. Anthrocon has their bases covered. That's all that really can be expected.
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That being said, we're not going to flip out of someone fails to memorize every single word in the Standards of Conduct. Stuff happens and people make mistakes.
It's the few individuals who aren't making mistakes, but actively trying to cause problems for other attendees is why many of our rules are in place. The rules provide us with a means of dealing with said disruptive individuals.
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Precisely. We're talking more about people who drop bowling balls off of the balconies, or decide to wave dangerous weapons around, or who don't take "no" for an answer.
The rules are here. The rules are in the conbook. The rules are on a big poster at every registration table. I think it is unreasonable to have to give them out to people getting hotel rooms. If they don't read the rules in those other three places, they're not going to read them when it's handed to them by the hotel.
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