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Hello lovely people. Here are some questions which I think are reasonable regarding BiCon 2001. I'd like to hear people's answers to them.

#1 Do you think that paying £2,200 to rent the accommodation for Monday night was the correct decision?

#2 (If you are a 2001 team member...) What alternatives were considered?

#3 Do you think that concealing this from everyone at the time was the correct decision?

#4 I have suggested that those of us - I'm one of them - who paid to stay elsewhere on the Monday night deserve at least an apology. Do you agree?

#5 Do you think that paying the full cost of the flight and other expenses for someone from Australia was a reasonable decision?

#6 (If you are a 2001 team member...) What financial planning was done that persuaded the team that it was affordable?

#7 What should 2002 and subsequent years do to avoid a similar situation in future?

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aegidian

Who are they accountable to? In the end, in real life, no-one. They supplied the service requested of them by the attenders and could have walked away with any money at the end of it. Unless the money passed to them was a loan with someone to be repaid at the end of the con, they had no other obligations.

Everyone is working on trust these days. You trusted 2001 to make the right decisions to make a good BiCon. They did what they thought was best at the time. You've no time machine to correct the decisions you think they could have made better. And I've no pillory we want to stick them in, even though you seem intent on constructing one.

And of course you're free to be as obnoxious as you like about decisions made by other people (and if I haven't made clear how obnoxious I'm finding your continual public carping on this, let me tell you, you've lost a great deal of respect I previously had for you).

I'm convinced of only one point you labour, I'd much rather have heard the 2001 team talk about their experience of running BiCon, warts and all, than to hear it from you.