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Re: BrickFest registration fees (was: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?)
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lugnet.events, lugnet.events.brickfest
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Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:52:25 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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“Because I’ll be more likely to help if I know”, “Because I’ll be more
likely to donate if I know”, “Because I’d be willing to pay more if I know”,
“Because I’m more likely to attend if I know”.
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Those are all decent answers. It sounds like there’s a discrepancy of
tense... my comments in this thread have all been aimed at the past tense,
why should an attendee of an event want to know information about what
they’ve just attended. Yours are examples of why you’d attend or volunteer
for one in the future.
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Well... yeah? Shouldn’t we be talking about consequence?
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To be clear, I’m not speaking for BrickFest at all... just as myself. So I’m
hoping that you’re not taking my comments as official statements. I haven’t
seen any posts or anything from official BrickFest sources that could be
construed as treating people as moronic sheep, so I’m not sure what that’s
referring to. I’m hoping you’re not finding my comments moronically sheepish.
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Oh, I’m not referring to any actions specifically-- I’m following what appears
to be your stance to its absolutist conclusions to test the validity of your
claim. Your claim appears to be “BrickFest owes only specifically what it claims
to owe to its attendees”, as in 1) a venue 2) space to show MOCs (as warranted
by the rules), 3) any merchandise advertised and purchased, and maybe 4)
presentations as promised, although “owe” may not apply in that case as
BrickFest may not guarantee the actions of its volunteer presenters.
Essentially, by claiming that, and (apparently) not advocating what BrickFest
“ought” and “ought not” do, your position comes across (to me at least) as being
very closed-door and heartless. Effectively, I heard you saying “BrickFest owes
you squat”.
And while I agree that that’s true, I think the point that is being expressed by
Todd (and to a point Anthony as well) is a valid one-- that we as a community
will feel *better* about the event the more we know, and will be more likely to
contribute more. I don’t know if anyone’s claiming that they really deserve or
need to know, but I would like to *encourage* a larger amount of transparency in
BrickFest’s finances.
DaveE
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