[Deptheads] Re: GM complaint

[Eric Nyquist]

My main concern is that we avoid making this a "spotlighted" issue among the community of attendees. 


Many people see the cons as places to "let their hair down" and relax. This often means wearing "that" T-shirt they wear nowhere else, and favorite old jeans that droop down the back.


Convention goers wearing overtly antagonizing shirts or buttons would be best approached in the same way one would alert someone about an open zipper or toilet paper stuck to their shoe.


Any guidelines or rules that we might consider, I would strongly suggest be non-specific in scope and positive and encouraging in tone. It's impossible to know what fashions might hit six months in the future...


Apolitically yours,


Eric N.



-----Original Message-----
From: Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com>
To: deptheads <deptheads at strategicon.net>
Sent: Thu, Sep 6, 2012 3:10 am
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Re: GM complaint



Personally I do not feel a game convention is a place to debate politics, race, sex preference, illegal immigration, abortion, religion, etc....especially from staff and volunteers.
Dress code, hygene, language, be on time,  and other things are in my gm emails. It is humorous but gets the point across about not wearing certain shirts or skimpy costumes while gming. Be respectful to those attending your event.
Personally I have asked gms to change shirts or turn them inside out while gming. They can wear what they want while not gming but pokemon doesn't need a gm with a religious shirt mocking gay marriage. Same with the abortion debate t-shirts.
I have yet to have a gm argue to keep their mud slinging shirt on while gming. 
Political mocking t-shirts are worn to antagonize. People know this when they put them on. Our gms (as Ryan and Eric B. have stated) should be welcoming not antagonizing our attendees. 
I am republican so I don't care if people bash obama but there will be attendees that are turned-off  by gms pushing their politics, religion, beliefs, etc. Most won't complain to us but they will on facebook, twitter, blogs, etc. Some won't return.
And none of us here can go up to an  attendee bothered by political mocking t-shirts and say "We looked at the shirts and we don't see what your problem is".  
Most staff already discuss expectations with their volunteers and those that do not can start. We are rocking the cons and growing...so let's keep the good vibrations going in 2013.........................
 
 
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