From: fafhrd@lunacity.com (David Medinnus)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: AA'93, AX'93, and Flame Wars
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:18:50 PST
Organization: LunaCity BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA

albertw@netcom.com (The Email Otaku) writes:

> fafhrd@lunacity.com (David Medinnus) writes:
> > 
> > Albert, please check your facts before you make statements on-line. For 
> > example, if you check the AE'92 staff list for department heads and above 
> > you will find that more than half of them are with AA'93, including the 
> > entire Operations division.
> 
> I said "Maybe I'm just small fry too, but I'm also original staff and I
> didn't walk.  There are still original staff left.  Or are you implying
> that the remaining staff are unable to put on AX'93?"
> 
> At the last meeting there were still familiar faces. *shrug*  And no, I
> don't regard staff as *just* the department heads.  The people working for
> said department heads last year, count as staff too.
> 
> > And if I hear another "quality vs. quantity" comment, I'll vomit. All of 
> > the guests confirmed at both cons are professionals, and should be 
> 
> "Quality" is a subjective term.  There are some who are big fans of GoH X,
> but don't know GoH Y.  Hence GoH X has more "quality" than GoH Y.  Besides,
> 'twas Mr. Green who started counting guests.  I think the score was 14 to 9
> or something like that.
> 
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While I agree with you that staff, and not just department heads, count 
as staff, there is also the factor of experience to consider. For 
example, who is doing your hotel/facility contracts? Not Chris Knight; he 
would never have signed a contract like the one MT did with the Oakland 
Parc. Who is running volunteers? Not Bob Lau. Who is running Operations 
(either the entire division, or the Ops office)? Not Charlie Prael or Jo 
Goldberg. Who is running Guest Relations? Not Andy Kim. Who is running 
the Art Show? Dealers Room? And when you insert names to these positions, 
could you please indicate as to whether or not any of these people have 
done the job before? Or anything similar? On the other hand, y'all having 
Terry Yuong (sp?) as Registration is VERY good; he was very professional 
and efficient last year.

And your comment on quantity vs quality is well-taken; I thought that it 
was pretty rude/pointless/futile to begin a "we have" vs. "they have" 
arguement thread on either the "we have more than they do" or the "we 
have fewer guests, but of higher quality" positions. Which was precisely 
my point. George sounded stupid when he did the "14 vs 4" comment, and 
you and James Brooks sounded petty and defensive with the "quality vs. 
quantity" riposte. Both cons have good, professional, relevant anime 
industry guests, and lets leave it at that.

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