No one's suggesting that mistakes should be dealt with in the same way as predatory behavior. The article makes this explicit in its specimen code: > [I]f the

No one's suggesting that mistakes should be dealt with in the same way as predatory behavior. The article makes this explicit in its specimen code: > [I]f the organizers feel a particular individual is the cause of more than one complaint, and does not self-correct, they may exclude that person from the event. There's room here to deal with someone who's merely boorish or ignorant without throwing them out of the con; with such a person, a word on the subject of minimal standards of behavior will generally suffice. In cases where that doesn't suffice, and the harassment continues, I am much of the opinion that the host's responsibility to his blameless guest outweighs that to the misbehaving one; sure, it's a shame if someone gets booted out of a con because he genuinely isn't equipped to behave in a minimally decent fashion, but it's much more of a shame if people feel like they can't safely go to a convention at all because there's a significant chance they'll be harassed by fellow guests.