I have two problems with this. The first is practical and relatively easily solved; you've asked me to confirm something without including the text of what I'm confirming. I don't care if I have agreed to it already, if you're asking me to repeat myself for the avoidance of doubt, I expect you to repeat yourself too. Having a copy of the CoC at Registration would solve that, but exacerbate the second problem.
The second problem is social; the more you thrust things like a Code of Conduct in people's faces, the more they will kick back against them. I had an example of this with a former employer over the Acceptable Use policy. Every company has one, every employee agrees to it on joining, and then it's shoved on the shelf and ignored because all that's actually necessary is for people to behave sensibly. When we were required to confirm before logging in that we would abide by the AUP, we re-read it wearing our International Standards Writers' hat and effectively tore it to shreds, actually rendering it less effective.
Presenting the membership packet like this squanders a lot of goodwill right at the start of the convention. I would seriously consider turning round a leaving, because the presence of that notice strongly suggests that I'm going to be pressured about this throughout the con, which is not going to be fun at all. I'm certainly not going to volunteer to help an organisation that has just in effect told me that it doesn't trust me to behave myself.
I do approve of having clear, simple codes of conduct; no problem with that at all. However I doubt any of the offenders at Loncon would have paid any more attention to a message on their membership pack than they did to the original statement when they joined up.
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The second problem is social; the more you thrust things like a Code of Conduct in people's faces, the more they will kick back against them. I had an example of this with a former employer over the Acceptable Use policy. Every company has one, every employee agrees to it on joining, and then it's shoved on the shelf and ignored because all that's actually necessary is for people to behave sensibly. When we were required to confirm before logging in that we would abide by the AUP, we re-read it wearing our International Standards Writers' hat and effectively tore it to shreds, actually rendering it less effective.
Presenting the membership packet like this squanders a lot of goodwill right at the start of the convention. I would seriously consider turning round a leaving, because the presence of that notice strongly suggests that I'm going to be pressured about this throughout the con, which is not going to be fun at all. I'm certainly not going to volunteer to help an organisation that has just in effect told me that it doesn't trust me to behave myself.
I do approve of having clear, simple codes of conduct; no problem with that at all. However I doubt any of the offenders at Loncon would have paid any more attention to a message on their membership pack than they did to the original statement when they joined up.