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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 6878278" data-attributes="member: 18182">From my perspective from reading this thread, this sounds like a "he said, she said" situation where one party claims one thing and the other party claims the other. While this expands upon the whole problem of harassment is a difficult thing to prove, it also doesn't really matter (to me) in context of this thread, as the situation as originally explained is totally believable and most certainly does happen at conventions across the country.However, if I'm reading both sides correctly, harassment most certainly did occur at this convention. If it's true that the woman snuck into the convention known for sexual content, was harassed and assaulted by someone from her own group, and later refused to cooperate fully with convention staff . . . doesn't really change the base fact that she was assaulted at this convention. To imply that this woman was somehow at least partially at fault for what happened to her is blaming the victim, which is not cool.If the convention staff did their best to resolve the situation, and even crafted a stronger harassment policy as a result, THAT'S AWESOME! While it's certainly possible the victim made some bad choices before, during, and after the incidents, it seems like what should have happened did happen.Last point, whoah! You describe a convention I would likely never attend or even worse be a part of the event staff. Mixing standard convention activities with a later "adult" convention, plus throwing free booze into the mix . . . yeah, that's asking for some not-good things to happen with lawsuits to follow. Perhaps the conventions new harassment policy takes this into account, but the convention staff should be going out of their way to clearly demarcate the (perhaps) "family-friendly" daytime convention activities from the more racy "adult" nighttime convention activities. It should be in writing, on the website, on the convention program, on the posters on the walls, on event door tags . . . . there should be no doubt in anyone's mind what kind of a room you're stepping into at this convention. But, it's doable! I'm sure that conventions that solely cater to "adult" activities have crafted (and enforced) strong anti-harassment policies, so a gaming convention that caters to a more adult crowd should be able to do so also.</blockquote>

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