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

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

That's really bad. What convention is/was this? It sounds like one we want to avoid.

I don't use Facebook for online commenting (part of the whole "keeping Facebook on a very tight leash" thing -- I don't want it linking to every other site I read), and I don't comment on sites that insist I do. Their loss. And while I do use Facebook for party announcements and suchlike, I also post about them on LJ/DW *and* have a separate e-mail announcement list for those of my friends who don't do either. That's just common courtesy.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It's their very first con; I'm going to wait and see how they handle the problem... and how they handle being told that there is a BIG, BIG problem before I put the knife in so far as to name names.