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October 27th, 2015 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Kay Shapero
    Kay Shapero
    October 27, 2015 at 2:15 am | # | Reply

    Grin – haven’t drawn THAT duty since I took up working Con Ops. Possibly our busiest time, even just fielding “can we leave this here?” requests by people who should know better…

  2. KORfan
    KORfan
    October 27, 2015 at 5:59 pm | # | Reply

    We always ran feedback in a separate room. I don’t think I ever saw more than 25 people. Once closing ceremony ended, we started tearing stuff down.

  3. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    October 27, 2015 at 8:45 pm | # | Reply

    I’m always a little amazed how few people stay for the feedback panel.

    And how many of those have one single issue they want to spend the whole panel talking about.

  4. Sarah
    Sarah
    October 28, 2015 at 2:05 pm | # | Reply

    The feedback session is with the con chair and the vice con chair aka next year’s chair. Usually it’s not that full, but everyone present decides they want to monologue.

    I really want to see how Veronica deals with monologuers.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      October 28, 2015 at 4:11 pm | # | Reply

      Sadly we won’t get to see that this year, as I have to wrap up the con on Thursday.

      Because next week is November.

  5. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    October 28, 2015 at 9:36 pm | # | Reply

    We used to fun comments after closing ceremony, and it wqas routinely 50% “Your con is the best con ever” despite us politely telling people If you had a wonderful time, great, but we want to hear what we could improve on.”

    Eventually, we just had an online comment page because we wanted to pack up after Closing ceremonies and get to the staff dinner and the boozings. Works good, we think.

    • E. Bernhard Warg
      E. Bernhard Warg
      November 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm | # | Reply

      Not to mention, if there are a lot of people waiting to comment, some might not get their chance to make a legitimate criticism because too many people ahead of them wasted time with praise and talking about how many years they’ve been attending.

      Unless, of course, they want to praise Otakon’s Classic Video track.

  6. Kay Shapero
    Kay Shapero
    October 30, 2015 at 1:56 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t present (or even on the ConCom thank Ghu) the time a convention which shall be left nameless because it was a looooong time ago had enough visible-to-attendees screwups that bard Leslie Fish turned up at the gripe session with a song about the lot and started singing. I’ve heard the song. Oh dear…

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