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

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

As I'm pretty sure I know who (or rather what, as I don't know him personally) Ann is referring to here -- trust me, he could have been shaped like Michaelangelo's David, and the outfit he was wearing would still have been out of bounds in the common areas.

[larksdream]

I'll take your word for it. But my issue isn't with the rule, or with wanting or not wanting to enforce the rule. My issue is with the mean remark. Personally, if I don't find someone's appearance stunningly attractive, I keep it to myself, especially in a public forum, and doubly so when the person might be reading it.

If this "feedback" is about modesty, then let's keep it to modesty; if quietann's real feeling is that only unattractive people should be modest, then she needs to hand out a list of who meets her criteria. Because I definitely saw a few people returning from the shower naked and some women who were topless for various reasons, and they don't seem to have inspired quite the same level of, uh, feeling.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

How would you write the bounds? (See my reply to Ann's comment a few above this.)

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

If it were my party, I'd suggest: "Don't wear anything that's likely to give the landlords a seizure if they happen to wander onsite."

But, pertinently, it's not my party, so if there's to be a policy other than common sense, it gets to be yours. :)