Quote of the day

Like any internet kerfuffle, the very very very worst thing you could possibly do is to make sure tons of people who have never even heard of the person who was being nasty, have heard all about it, by doing something really controversial that fans all over the world will talk about.

Yes, whereas previously, what, a dozen or a few dozen, people were aware of such criticism, now thousands and thousands of people, perhaps more, will hear about this as the one thing they know about Octocon: that they have a committee that is totally clueless about how to handle criticism, and is completely ignorant of what happens when you ban a person in advance of the convention without having very clear publically justifiable reasons for doing so.

This, again, might be something you possibly should consider. Or not. I have popcorn.

-- Gary Farber, in the comments at http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=6500

Quote of the day

Like any internet kerfuffle, the very very very worst thing you could possibly do is to make sure tons of people who have never even heard of the person who was being nasty, have heard all about it, by doing something really controversial that fans all over the world will talk about.

Yes, whereas previously, what, a dozen or a few dozen, people were aware of such criticism, now thousands and thousands of people, perhaps more, will hear about this as the one thing they know about Octocon: that they have a committee that is totally clueless about how to handle criticism, and is completely ignorant of what happens when you ban a person in advance of the convention without having very clear publically justifiable reasons for doing so.

This, again, might be something you possibly should consider. Or not. I have popcorn.

-- Gary Farber, in the comments at http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=6500