post-baitcon feedback

[quietann.livejournal.com]

My personal issues with baitcon are in my personal journal; however, there are a few things that IMHO need to change:

• Separate dishes/mixing equipment/etc. for any ice cream product containing meat. There are a lot of people involved who nominally keep kosher, and it's discomfiting to know that one's ice cream might have been prepared using the same equipment as, say, the chicken liver ice cream. (for that matter, I'd just ban meat-containing flavors entirely, but that's not my decision to make.)
  
• More whole wheat (not just wheat, whole wheat) bread, less white bread. We ran out of whole wheat by lunch on Saturday. (this suggestion passed on from Gregorian, who was amazingly polite about it, but still really would have preferred whole wheat bread for his peanut butter sandwich...)
  
• More tarpage for shade protection (may not be an issue if baitcon isn't at Mink Hollow anymore, but...)
  
• Re-reinforcement of the "modest dress" (ahem) requirement in and around the main area. There was one person in particular who seriously violated this. (insert serious snarkage here; I am trying to be polite.) Dancing naked in the rain, as usual, should be granted leniency.
  

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

* Re-reinforcement of the "modest dress" (ahem) requirement in and around the main area. There was one person in particular who seriously violated this. (insert serious snarkage here; I am trying to be polite.) Dancing naked in the rain, as usual, should be granted leniency.

Okay, what is the "modest dress" requirement?
My assumption is "nothing that would get you arrested", though I think I might still have been uncomfortable in a thong & pasties :-/

My instinct has been to leave full nudity to rain showers*, and I've tended to feel that I'm on the outside edge of modest, anyway (most other folks are wearing rather more than a bikini top or small halter on top). But other than a feeling of "this is general public space" I've never heard anything specific.


As to aesthetics, though (hairy comment)... you can always turn your eye to those who appeal.

* I'd always heard of the stream as clothing optional, which to me implied that the house wasn't.**

** Not that I participated in last time's mudfight - it was too danged *cold* out there! Hell, come to think of it, I think I've only once been nude down at the stream and I was hiding behind the shower.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

As to aesthetics, though (hairy comment)... you can always turn your eye to those who appeal

indeed. it's rarely the fault of the person being looked at. don't look, don't tell. if it REALLY offends one, talk to the person in question about perhaps tacking on a bit of duct tape or something.

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[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

palmwiz explained it better (http://www.livejournal.com/community/baitcon/12365.html?thread=56397#t56397).

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

indeed.

since the hosts didn't seem to have any immediate threat level escalation, it appears they were within limits. nuff said then i guess.

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