Advice and sample roomie request.
 Location: from NYC
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(This is unofficial, informal advice from someone who's attended different conventions of different types in different places, with different roomies.)
Let's say you have a room, and want to get some roommates (up to 3) to cut your AC costs. You should prepare a little. 1) Thread title. 2) Figure out how many people you want, and how much each is supposed to pay. 3) Figure out the style of room you want. 4) Figure out your conditions- what do you think are the limits of the room? 5) Personal preferences should be mentioned, also. Male roommates? Female? Sample: Title: 2 spots for crashspace available at the Omni. We'd prefer another couple if possible. (Please keep excessive affection Sample: Title: 1 spot for crashspace available at the Doubletree. The room is for general use. Noon-8pm, you can bring guests, but don'r Finally, "no weird stuff. We don't want to come into the room and find you (I took that from an actual post.) |
What I'd like to know is how he got the single-spacing for most of the post w/o using line-wrapping; if you manually insert a <CR>, it double-spaces the post (like the first two lines 
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Oh, and I didn't think this needed mentioning, but, apparently, it does.
AnthroCon is a family-friendly convention. People should feel safe from any expectations of uninvited physical familiarity-and they are. All public areas are G-rated, and AC is an event that all attendees should feel free to invite their parents to (I have, the Chairman has-and his attend, and so on.) (Not all events are OF INTEREST to children, but-with the exception of a few clearly-labeled events late at night, and maybe 1 or 2 security-controlled areas, children are ABLE to attend all events and be in any area.)
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Keeping that in mind, AC cannot-and would not- police each and every individual hotel room. All AC attendees are expected to act as responsible adults, and conduct themselves properly. By that I mean, if there are minors present, they will conduct themselves in age-appropriate fashions around them, and treat all attendees with reasonable amounts of respect and personal privacy. We are also expected to conduct ourselves as responsible guests in any hotel in which we are staying at- no damaging the rooms, no leaving trash thrown around the room (there are trash cans, there are bags for trash, so housekeeping should not be stuck in any room for long periods patrolling any room looking for pieces of trash and finding them all over-of course, few rooms will be SPOTLESS, but respect the cleaning staff and the room), no damaging ANY hotel property or convention property (and let the hotel/convention center know if an accident has taken place and accept you will need to pay any costs to fix it), and reasonable amounts of noise (at no time should people in other rooms be hearing lots of noise from your room, and in the evening and the morning, keep it down. I nap in the afternoon, and I've never had a problem in any hotel room with excessive noise coming through the walls or ceiling in the afternoon.) If someone goes outside this, it reflects badly on not just THEM, but on ANTHROCON and ALL OF US. ONE incident is enough to make thousands of us look bad, and cause long-term trouble for the convention-which relies on building a reputation of GOOD FAITH and GOOD CONDUCT, without which we could not HAVE a convention center or hotels, which means a bad reputation means we have NO CONVENTION. Be nice to all the convention areas, too.
(tl;dr version- 1) Be excellent to each other. 2) Treat the other attendees with respect and give them their proper due, conduct, and space. 3) Treat the locations with respect, and don't damage or trash them, and don't make more noise than should reasonably be expected at that location and time. (The Zoo is expected to be noisier, hotel rooms are expected to be quieter, especially overnight.)
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Keeping all of THAT in mind, people looking for rooms, and advertising for rooms, should plan to keep respectable amounts of social and physical distance with their roomies. Conduct yourself with them as if they were your grandparents, say. (If it would be inappropriate for your grandparents, it's probably too "friendly" for your roommates.) So, advertise for a room with the intention of keeping a PROFESSIONAL DISTANCE from your roomies.
This does not mean "thou shalt not have any "fun" in thy room. It does mean "thou shalt not make it a condition for rooming with thyself", and "thou shalt make sure any roomies won't be in the room if you're going to be having 'fun'." USE COMMON SENSE. Again, consider the "Grandparent" Rule of Thumb- if it's inappropriate with your grandparents in the room, then don't do it with your roomie in the room.
With Blackjack's recent additions regarding appropriate behavior in a hotel room shared with strangers, those words just took on a whole new meaning...
Now if you'll excuse me, i need to go find some brain-bleach. 
I'd vote this to be a sticky.
Maybe you could bold the titles of each numbered paragraph for readability?
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