2009/4/3 theadydal <[email protected]>: > > Well then why don't cons have steering? Why don't they have those who > have the experience who are willing to assist > or be on the end of an email of those who are running things now? If > things are not played forward they get lost, > and the same basic mistakes get made and we all suffer the effects of it.
Because most cons, when offered help, don't avail of it. Because con directors are people too and they feel that they've worked their way up through committees, or done similar things, and have decided that they have a way they're going to work and a set bunch of people they're going to talk to about it. There are a large number of people who've said and written things and have made themselves available for advice etc. etc. who've never been tapped. Three/four year college cycles don't help, but neither does the fact that the advice hasn't been sought out by more than a handful of people over the years. I'll talk to anyone about such things, I know there are others who will to. It's not like the past con committees are all sitting there saying, "Our secrets, go away!" Rather it is that they aren't being approached at all. And those cons that do talk to them, that do benefit from the advice, those cons are, imo, visibly better. But then again, I would say that. :) B.
