While it's certainly an "okay" social activity that might have its place at a convention, I would love to see something more "on topic".
Well technically, the disco, the game room, the music sig, clearing out the hotel beer supply, and having the reception hall sponsered by jagermister are also 'off topic' - if you really want to use that term.
You are absolutely right, so let's remove all furry content and just play Nintendo all day long while getting drunk.
*rolls eyes*
As you can see, everyone else in this thread took the hint, and tried to be constructive. Except for you.
How about reading more than the first line I wrote, and not painting it all black and white? I didn't say each and every event has to be 100% non-ambiguously furry, I just gave my Programming Director an instruction to mind the priorities so we have a con that actually feels like a con, and not like 1000 furries coincidentally meeting in a non-related place. I've experienced conventions who felt like that, and I'm doing my best that eurofurence will not become like that.
And you know that we have no influence on who the hotel chooses as their sponsors. So maybe the Maritim has "Bacardi" beer mats, I don't care.
As would a bunch of fat white europeans fighting each other over pointless scraps of dirt and ignoring what the 'locals' want. Wink
Now you are going too far. If you have some real constructive contributions to make this convention better, I'll be all ears. But please keep your destructive cynical remarks to yourself, especially when insinuating things I didn't say. Thank you.