Any action or behavior that causes significant interference with convention operations, excessive discomfort to other attendees, or adversely affects the convention’s relationship with its guests, its venue or the public is strictly forbidden and may result in suspension of current membership or permanent suspension of membership.
What is harassment?
Harassment is generally any behavior that causes discomfort or alarms or threatens another person or group.
Here are some examples of harassment:
Prohibited harassment includes gender-based harassment of an individual of the same sex as the harasser.
What should I do if I see someone else being harassed?
Ask the person being harassed if they are okay. Offer to help them find an appropriate Chair, Committee Member or Convention Operations volunteer to report the problem to, or stay with them while someone else finds help. These people are identifiable by their ribbons or yellow vests for operations volunteers.
Hate Speech
No forms of hate speech of any kind will be tolerated at Loscon. This will result in immediate removal from the event.
This includes:
Policial
Religious
Race, color or creed
Disability
Gender Identity
Sexual Orientation
What can I do if someone accuses me of harassment?
Participants asked to stop harassing behavior must comply immediately. These requests may appear as but are not limited to:
Please remember these are just a few examples and anti-harassment requests may appear in many forms not explicitly stated above.
If someone makes a complaint against you, listen, and be aware that your actions may not have come off as you intended them. If this has occurred, be prepared to apologize, sincerely, without qualifiers and then disengage and respectfully avoid similar situations in future. Please understand that, in such a situation, the safety of members is the highest priority.