We are very excited to announce today that ReedPOP, the folks behind New York Comic Con and several other fan conventions, have asked us for help with their harassment policy. We’d like to take it one step further and ask for YOUR input as well. Find out how you can help!
As anybody who’s been to a few New York Comic Cons can attest: the con is already big, but it’s also near to bursting the Javits Center’s seams. Maneuvering anywhere, using any form of wireless communication, or trying to find a specific person in a crowd (or even a spot where you can turn in a circle with your arms akimbo without touching anyone) is slow, difficult, dicey, and sometimes simply impossible. Convention staff are just as often friendly as they are disdainful to attendees (as in the security person who referred to folks trying to get into The Mary Sue’s own panel as “hopeless idiots” loudly within earshot of them), and are routinely awful at line management. This has been the case for years. It was hoped that perhaps this year’s focus on limiting the number of badges, strictly enforcing exits and entrances, and eliminating common paths to forgery or scalping would cut down on some of those problems, but the best I could say about the crowds this year was that they seemed “not worse than last year.”
At a certain point these elements (overcrowding, difficulty in communication, etc.) stop seeming like roadblocks in the way of ReedPop’s ability to make sure that attendees can feel safe interacting with their fellow fans, and more like the basic facts of New York Comic Con that ReedPop, as the people who are throwing this party, should have measures in place to operate around.
Are you going to be in NYC for New York Comic Con? Are you a geek? Stop by The Mary Sue’s NYCC party, taking place this Thursday from 8-11pm. Details are at the link.
(Please note that we’ve changed venues since we announced the party earlier. We’d hate for you to show up at the wrong place.)
It’s true! We’re coming to New York Comic Con 2012 and we want to meet you! What better way to do that then by hosting a party with HerUniverse.com’s Ashley Eckstein, voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars! There will be prizes, games, and cool people!
Want to join us? Click here to find out how!
