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SayNoToSaskBlitz
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[2015-06-18 00:11:28 +0000 UTC]
"Changes must be made."
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@ hydra. There is more than just this year of bad experiences. The coordinator refuses to take any advice or help with the convention. Its been stated by many curent and past volunteers that they are not open to new suggestions. Also people of saskatoon dont miss out on conventions. A much better, well organized convention called the sask expo is held there and it is one of Saskatchewan's greatest cons but then again you've already stated that you've been to it.
@ soulcatchers No apologies have been made. Just Sorry we got caught it wasnt meant to be seen by anyone statements from the blitz. The only thing thats been said is stupid childish arguments by you on multiple fronts of this. You cant argue with screenshots which is exactly what you are doing. There has also been reports of a sexual predator at the dance that had to be removed by police. Its also not just the artist in question complaining about the treatment and the staff, there has been quite a few artists coming forward and also quite a few people saying that the statements of the convention staff are false as they didn't even know any drama was happening. No matter how heated an argument gets there is no need for violent sexual remarks to be made. especially after this was clearly after the convention closed for the night as everyone was talking about going to bed. Also from your comments on facebook and what not I can tell you are just going to argue how you are 17 and you've lived in this world long enough to know whats going on, But you clearly don't. Please don't also post the lyrics to let it go either. Please stop trying to defend this con, the lies and lack of morals they have. Its doing nothing but making you look bad.
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To be quite fair, it isn't the job of the staff and volunteers to have a list of sexual predators to screen out of the entry of the building. I cannot put fault on them for not knowing this individual was present or his status with the law.
However, it is still distressing that it happened at all and I understand that people would be upset.
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Really? I've offered my constructive criticism of the con and the staff was more than happy to listen. It really helps if you don't scream at them. No one listens to you if you yell and scream and throw tantrums. As a mom, I can tell you that right away. If you talk to someone in a calm, rational manner and such, others are generally more inclined to listen to what you have to say. This shit is just pathetic.
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Congrats to you Melissa, Keep on posting that same Positive review you wrote to defend the blitz. I'm sure you had no issues with them as your location was probably not moved and completely given away on the second day like the artist stated. Im also not sure what you are directly replying to as what you are saying clearly has nothing to do with you or anything you are talking about. Even if the artist removed was acting out of control (which from multiple other artist/vendors/Volunteers/Staff members) have said that she wasn't, or they didn't even know anything was going on I don't think that's the case. You are one of the very few who have come forward with a positive experience and the negative reviews far outweigh the positive ones. The only ones coming to the defense of the con are either personal friends of the con organizer or children who have no idea how the real world works.
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First of all, don't you dare call me by name. you don't have that right, you don't know me. Call me petty for that all you want, but I really don't care.
Second, no, my table wasn't moved. It was rotated a little as part of a layout change. This change affected other artists as well. Others had the same thing done to theirs and I think some had them physically moved to accommodate the new layout. Lyeric is the only one bitching.
Third, I don't know any of the organizers personally. The only person involved with Blitz that I know personally is the lady who was responsible for the Alley the last couple years, but she stepped down after last year so that she could focus on other things in her life. She wasn't even there this year.
As for me being a child...yeah...not so much. I'm 33 and have been through a lot more than most people. This is not a game you want to play with me, sir. I'm well familiar with how this shit fest of a world works. If this is where you start bawing about contracts, let me stop you right there. The artists are obligated to hold up their end of them as well.
Furthermore, most of the artists who've had a positive experience don't want to come forward because of this shit storm. They see what you lot are doing to people like me, who are coming forward, and don't want to get pissed on the way I've been. Personally, I can't blame them. Part of me almost wishes I'd kept my mouth shut, but I can't.
I was so done talking about this issue yesterday and I really don't want to discuss it further.
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If you were done, why did you come back into the discussion? Perhaps there is a reason you were referred to as a child, Melissa. If you lack self control then maybe you should put forth better measures to stop yourself from impulsively leaping into things you do not want to be a part of.
If those artists are too cowardly to state that they had a good time, that is their problem. Not mine, not yours, not anyone elses' but their own. There are still plenty of people that came forth to say that they had a good time. Do not use other peoples lack of gumption as an excuse to sweep things like this under the rug and pretend they didn't happen. It is not our fault they are hiding. It is their own.
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Look, you don't know me so stop using my name. It bothers me.
I'm a helper. It's what I do. I see a problem, I try to fix it. You have a problem with that? Fine. I've backed away from this shit storm and said so days ago. Please leave me alone.
Those people are not cowards. The fact that you refer to them as such tells me a great deal about you. They aren't cowards and they aren't hiding. I know who some of them are.
I'm sweeping nothing under any rugs here.
I'm done talking about this issue. Do not contact me again. This is a hate group plain and simple and I want no part of you or it.
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People have their right to give facts and form their own opinions, I am not here to argue with either of you right now, I just want to state there are a few mixed up facts here. First of all, I'd be curious to know what staff members you're constantly talking about, since I was a former one and still friends with a lot of them, I have not heard a single thing you are claiming they have said. Again, I am not here to argue, I welcome you to prove me wrong actually cause the more I'm informed the better. One thing I can correct you on though is that this locked room you talked about didn't exist. The doors were closed, yes, but the room was unable to be locked since it was just made with some of those roll out room dividers convention spaces have. Those doors sadly don't have locks, although they should. Artists were informed of this, from what I was told it was on the contract as well they were reminded of this fact if they chose to store supplies in there. If these facts are wrong, again I am sorry, just repeating what I was told happened. It doesn't make it ok in any means, but the con cannot be held responsible for theft, that's one thing ALL cons state. If someone was told it was a locked room, they were misinformed and that would be a problem.
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Im talking about the staff members and volunteers that have come forward on Reddit and other tumblr posts saying all these things and ive got personal friends who are close to the convention relaying these facts to me. As for the doors being locked, yes in fact I was told that they were going to be locked as I was one of the artists. I was told the doors would be locked for the night and only volunteers and staff would be able to enter the room till the next day. Either way for a convention to lack any sort of professional security is a joke too. I understand that the blitz had a policy against theft but the fact some people were told that the room would be locked and some people were told to take everything down shows a big problem too. Just like not being able to get the closing time of the event right, there was a severe lack of communication. Not everyone can pack up their entire setup for the night without alot of unnecessary work which is why people chose to store it in the room the staff said would be locked.
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Uhg, this really does bother me cause if you were told the doors to the secure room would be locked when it's impossible, that basically means what volunteers told me was wrong. D= I love some of these people like family but the more personal stories I hear, the more and more I find I can't support this con, which is a shame since I've been part of it since the start. This was far from the dream I had when I signed up to work for Blitz and I'm so sorry, honestly, to everyone that got wrong information. There's no excuse for it when hundreds of dollars are on the line. I'm sorry to inform you that all volunteers and staff knew that the room they were saying things could be stored in was not able to be locked. That was a fact that Laura, herself, had stressed that we knew at meetings so there's no reason any staff should have said it could be locked.
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Actually there has been a few artists, as you put it "Bitching" about this. Some artists are flat out boycotting the blitz because of this years issues. There are artists who had hundreds of dollars worth of their stock stolen from the locked room only volunteers and staff could get in. When Lyeric arrived the second day she got there to find that her table was given away and when she spoke to Dana about it she was told by Dana that she figured she wasn't coming back so she gave her table away. It also wasn't just Lyeric with issues this weekend. One of the artists other than Lyeric had their table completely removed. It was actually the table the blitz tried to give Lyeric. It seems your haven't even read the article Lyeric posted about this weekend, either that or you are choosing to completely ignore black and white, copy and pasted facts.
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I understand frustrations and how mad people must be, especially over the screenshots, but this is a little childish. Do not fight fire with fire.
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Allowing people insight into the problems of the Blitz is "childish"? People should be able to make informed decisions about these functions. Perhaps even make changes to the event by combining efforts to make sure no one has to suffer these experiences again.
If you feel it is childish, that is your loss. Not the loss of others.
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I agree. A con is what people make of it, and granted, people were very unprofessional in parts, and it was quite unorganized. Hell, I didn't even know about it until it was too late for me to find time to go.
Seriously, I read the post in question, and I understand the frustration, and I read the screencaps. The people involved seriously need to grow up, get their stuff together, and learn some common decency.
That said, don't boycott the con because of some bad experiences, but instead work to make it BETTER for next year. Saskatoon NEEDS more events like this (I don't get to travel much, so my first con was SaskExpo 2014 and I LOVED it) because there are so many people who never get to experience conventions.
Saskatoon misses out on so many things (hot topic, olive garden, etc), I'd rather not have "conventions" on that list.
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Saskatoon needs competent people to run these events. If boycotting it will not make a difference, if telling people there is a problem will not make a difference... Then the con going further downhill each year will drive people away instead.
Make light of this. But do not expect anything to improve if you do.
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