This is not how to do it, people

[neadods]

If you want to run a tumblr-attendee-only con, you have every right to. But if you're not, you need to play fair with ALL the attendees. More than slightly annoyed to discover that an entire amenity attached to a convention I'm attending was planned, advertised, and sold out without ever having been announced at the convention site. Even some of the most basic convention information on the website has the prelude "this is taken from tumblr." Other basic convention information is NOT on the website... but turns out a Google search finds it. On Tumblr.

*sigh* I get it. Tumblr's were it's "at" these days. But that still doesn't mean that it's fair -- or professional! -- to use it in lieu of formats that cover your entire membership. And I'd been SO excited for this one. Now I'm wondering what other ways I'm going to be informed that I'm paying money down to be told I'm not in the in crowd that weekend.

ETA: Oh. For. Fuck's. Sake. I've found the convention tumblr and am only NOW finding out about all sorts of events that weren't on the convention site proper. Like the book drive. You think maybe I could help with a book drive IF I BLEEDING KNEW ABOUT IT?

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Not that was announced on the web page, I say with some bitterness. Am looking through the tumblr now that I've found it but don't see anything there. I'd have to check Google Maps to see what's in the neighborhood.

[mechturtle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for checking. Yesterday I'd found a Marriott Residence Inn (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/travel/atlrn-residence-inn-atlanta-perimeter-dunwoody/) nearby that makes it a good candidate distance-wise, though I don't know how easy/safe a walk it would be between hotels on a frontage road at night. It looks like the next highway exit to the west has a bunch more, but one would probably need a vehicle to get back and forth easily.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I've been using google satellite to look at the area around the con. It's not inspiring confidence that we can go far on foot.