By: Kevin Black

Kevin Black
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:03:18 +0000

What conceivable purpose is there to make people who have paid and preregistered produce barcodes and then scan them? Is this to prove who they are? But you are already requiring the person to produce a photo ID.

Can you offer me one reason why the convention should not just check in in advance everyone who has paid and preregistered, print out their badges, and just hand the badge to the person at the event when they produce their photo ID?

This kind of barcode system makes sense if you are purchasing tickets to a ticketed event like a concert, and the printout at home replaces your ticket and serves as your identification. Norwescon is not that kind of event, and is checking every person’s ID anyway. WTF?