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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6877705" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>I worked security at my local live-action game convention this year. The con has, for years, been a couple hundred people. It only just reached over 350 attendees, and the con runners only just decided to have its own security staff.</p><p></p><p>There is *nobody* at the door. If you are holding an event in a hotel, you can't put people at the door, because there will be hotel guests that aren't part of your event that also have to come and go. There are convention badges, and if you are caught playing a game without one, you'll be given a talking to and asked to go get your badge. But, if a non-attendee walked over to the vendors, and wanted to buy something, they'd be perfectly welcome to. I think a couple years ago, the vendors got some good sales off some girl's sports teams that were also staying at the hotel. </p><p></p><p>As Hussar said, 300 people is a large wedding, and probably doesn't call for increased security in most cases. </p><p></p><p>Heck, I also attend our local sci-fi convention, which is about 10 times the size of the gaming con above. Again, there's nobody at the door (for the same reason - we are using a large hotel's conference spaces, and other guests cannot be kept out of the building. There is convention security watching the doors of the Dealer's Room, the Art Show, and the Convention Suite, to see that folks who enter are convention attendees. The Art Show doesn't allow you to bring bags in, in case someone wants to try to pocket something.</p><p></p><p>But, you do *not* have security wandering around giving an eyeball to each of the gaming tables all the time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I expect the larger hotel for the sci-fi convention has a rent-a-cop on hand. And yes, the police know what's going on. But there's no major presence at the gathering. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and the woman I spoke about upthread was molested *by a member of convention security staff*. So, yay for trusting security staff to handle harassment cases!</p><p></p><p>(The convention actually had a very clearly defined process for taking complaints (even against their own), where a security staffer (who was actually quite good and professional about it), walked through and asked questions and registered all the relevant information in forms, and it did get addressed after the convention.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For the 300 person convention, not really. The plan in the past was, "tell one of the senior convention staff, who would make a judgement call, and/or call the cops if it is bad". I do know that one year one party at the live action convention got a bit loud, other hotel attendees complained, and the cops came in to deal with it - it took them 20 minutes to show up, or something. Now, that was for a noise complaint, but I don't think they'd have been hustling for a complaint that a woman had gotten groped, either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6877705, member: 177"] I worked security at my local live-action game convention this year. The con has, for years, been a couple hundred people. It only just reached over 350 attendees, and the con runners only just decided to have its own security staff. There is *nobody* at the door. If you are holding an event in a hotel, you can't put people at the door, because there will be hotel guests that aren't part of your event that also have to come and go. There are convention badges, and if you are caught playing a game without one, you'll be given a talking to and asked to go get your badge. But, if a non-attendee walked over to the vendors, and wanted to buy something, they'd be perfectly welcome to. I think a couple years ago, the vendors got some good sales off some girl's sports teams that were also staying at the hotel. As Hussar said, 300 people is a large wedding, and probably doesn't call for increased security in most cases. Heck, I also attend our local sci-fi convention, which is about 10 times the size of the gaming con above. Again, there's nobody at the door (for the same reason - we are using a large hotel's conference spaces, and other guests cannot be kept out of the building. There is convention security watching the doors of the Dealer's Room, the Art Show, and the Convention Suite, to see that folks who enter are convention attendees. The Art Show doesn't allow you to bring bags in, in case someone wants to try to pocket something. But, you do *not* have security wandering around giving an eyeball to each of the gaming tables all the time. I expect the larger hotel for the sci-fi convention has a rent-a-cop on hand. And yes, the police know what's going on. But there's no major presence at the gathering. Oh, and the woman I spoke about upthread was molested *by a member of convention security staff*. So, yay for trusting security staff to handle harassment cases! (The convention actually had a very clearly defined process for taking complaints (even against their own), where a security staffer (who was actually quite good and professional about it), walked through and asked questions and registered all the relevant information in forms, and it did get addressed after the convention.) For the 300 person convention, not really. The plan in the past was, "tell one of the senior convention staff, who would make a judgement call, and/or call the cops if it is bad". I do know that one year one party at the live action convention got a bit loud, other hotel attendees complained, and the cops came in to deal with it - it took them 20 minutes to show up, or something. Now, that was for a noise complaint, but I don't think they'd have been hustling for a complaint that a woman had gotten groped, either. [/QUOTE]
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