Took Lex on the local volunteer run train yesterday. These guys were out doing track maintenance the week before in two inches of snow! It was that, combined with the comment on the Boxcutters blog, that really got me stirred up.
That person's comment really irked me, because it feels like such a common attitude. The irony being that the people who don't compliment will be the first to complain when something vanishes.
I remember clearly all the fans who complained about the lack of fan-run conventions in Melbourne. So I start Continuum, and so far I can name two of the original complainers who have come to one. One of whom keeps whingeing about it, but has never once offered assistance or suggestions of who could come and help out to achieve the things they want. Or offered to pay for it.
Then there was the complaint after C1 that upset me so much, even after the near universal compliments, that if I hadn't already announced C2, there would never have been another Continuum. When I told them that, they were rather surprised that I took their comments so hard.
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Date: 2011-05-22 08:43 am (UTC)That person's comment really irked me, because it feels like such a common attitude. The irony being that the people who don't compliment will be the first to complain when something vanishes.
I remember clearly all the fans who complained about the lack of fan-run conventions in Melbourne. So I start Continuum, and so far I can name two of the original complainers who have come to one. One of whom keeps whingeing about it, but has never once offered assistance or suggestions of who could come and help out to achieve the things they want. Or offered to pay for it.
Then there was the complaint after C1 that upset me so much, even after the near universal compliments, that if I hadn't already announced C2, there would never have been another Continuum. When I told them that, they were rather surprised that I took their comments so hard.