OH. DRAMA.

[ang_rosin]

[Poll #1467311]

I've been to Octocon. I was lucky to get there in 2006 and meet Frank Darcy who I'd only really known online before then. It was an interesting experience and one that I'd like to repeat, but possibly not right at this moment.

Badly Done, as they say.

EDIT: Auntie Ang says: Remember, you can't kill everyone.

EDIT2: I'm linking to the joint statement published on slovobooks blog about the matter here for completeness. What I will say that this poll was always about confirming how I believed most fans I knew would behave in similar circumstances.

Comments

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

If I had done anything like that, there would be no need to ban me, given that I would already have faked my own death and have moved to St Kilda to raise chickens.

As for the forgiveness, well, it depends. Like many people who have been around fandom for a long time, I have acquired a few people who be quite happy if I fell off the face of the earth. I like to think that they are in the minority, however.

Psst. Nobody fancies China Mieville. We've been over this.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

If I had done anything like that, there would be no need to ban me, given that I would already have faked my own death and have moved to St Kilda to raise chickens.

Yeah, that's why question 1 is so hard to answer. Because of the way we'd react after doing something worth being banned for, we wouldn't do it in the first place - if we were the sort of people who would do that, then we'd react differently to being banned.

I like to think that they are in the minority, however.

They're certainly Wrong. And not welcome round my place.

[cdave]

The other difference is, if I'd been banned from any event it's not that big a deal. I've not been going to these things for that long. But if it was one that I used to be on the committee on, and was a regular attendee off, it could well be a different matter.