a) I don't really accept Danny's central contention that media fans have been hard done by over the last 10 years; and b) agree with angriest that the current problem with cons is that they're too insular, too focused on fannish activity and not enough on the genre's content;
I'd rather the wank and drama over who gets the national award for the production of the best songvid etc. happen around the people who really want them to awarded, and see a need for them - rather than getting foisted on some random future Con committee.
I'm not a big fan of changing the rules to make other people do the work on something you want to see happen.
It's not really fair, it mostly doesn't work, and it's an an open invitation for wank and drama when those people then don't do exactly what was envisioned by the people who, essentially, didn't want to do it themselves.
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Date: 2009-06-05 12:31 am (UTC)a) I don't really accept Danny's central contention that media fans have been hard done by over the last 10 years; and
b) agree with
I'd rather the wank and drama over who gets the national award for the production of the best songvid etc. happen around the people who really want them to awarded, and see a need for them - rather than getting foisted on some random future Con committee.
I'm not a big fan of changing the rules to make other people do the work on something you want to see happen.
It's not really fair, it mostly doesn't work, and it's an an open invitation for wank and drama when those people then don't do exactly what was envisioned by the people who, essentially, didn't want to do it themselves.