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PS you wish I got booted out, I quit long ago because of brain dead politics in group. I never was sheep material.
Whatever.
So you sat at home 20 miles away, but were never actually there. Yet you are an expert. Right.
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And here, gentle readers, is the crux of it.
It is very, very easy to sit back and criticize, using 20/20 hindsight and Monday Morning Quarterbacking, what someone else should have done. It's an entirely different thing to actually get your proverbial hands dirty -- making the phone calls, visiting the prospective venues and vendors, lining up the supplies and materials, and being on hand to put things together, run the event, and take them apart at the end.
I don't know about anyone else who has been commenting on, or at least reading, this and related threads. At least I've been involved in multiple hamfests to one degree or another, including helping to run my own club's hamfest for the last 22 years. Now I'm not going to pretend that this gives me a license to be an expert on everything involved in as big an event as Hamvention is, or anything even close; there's a huge difference of scale between a one day hamfest of ~500 attendees, and an undertaking like a three or four day, 15,000 - 20,000 attendee event like this. But at least I have an idea of what they are going through, even on a smaller scale.
So W8JX will continue to sit in his easy chair, call everyone names, spew venom at DARA, and generally talk trash about Hamvention. And every now and then, he may actually manage by accident to make a point.
Just keep in mind that it doesn't mean that he has a clue.
This is the easy part. Telling us all what's wrong. Actually doing something about it? Well, that's not so easy... that actually requires work, sweat, and commitment.