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dash-con 2014
Jul. 13th, 2014 11:45 amEdited to add your Daily Dot roundup: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/dash-con-controversy-tumblr/
For those wondering what happened at Dashcon, there's a good roundup here with links to main points. Crowdfunded, failed to deliver on crowdfund rewards, tickets were $65, more to see Night Vale, more to see musical act they never signed, claimed they couldn't pay the hotel on Friday and raised $17,000 through donations that night, couldn't pay Night Vale so they ditched, and as a consolation prize to Night Vale ticket purchasers, offered an hour in a kiddy pool filled with balls. Now, I've been to bad conventions that were shut-down mid con, and the con chair didn't beg for donations or wave excuses or post funny pictures on tumblr while the con collapsed, they put on their big boy pants and took responsibility for the disaster. I don't see that happening here.
Nope, I see a big empty hall with a bouncy house and a ball pit and not a lot of people in either. Certainly not the 5000-7000 they claimed they were going to get.
For those wondering what happened at Dashcon, there's a good roundup here with links to main points. Crowdfunded, failed to deliver on crowdfund rewards, tickets were $65, more to see Night Vale, more to see musical act they never signed, claimed they couldn't pay the hotel on Friday and raised $17,000 through donations that night, couldn't pay Night Vale so they ditched, and as a consolation prize to Night Vale ticket purchasers, offered an hour in a kiddy pool filled with balls. Now, I've been to bad conventions that were shut-down mid con, and the con chair didn't beg for donations or wave excuses or post funny pictures on tumblr while the con collapsed, they put on their big boy pants and took responsibility for the disaster. I don't see that happening here.
Nope, I see a big empty hall with a bouncy house and a ball pit and not a lot of people in either. Certainly not the 5000-7000 they claimed they were going to get.
