Thank you to everyone who raised this petition to 195 signatures.

 
Momentum has plateaued. Support for this proposal began and ends with us.

 
I imagined our common sense request would be embraced by convention staff, but I have heard the opposite. That behind closed doors they discuss this petition together, are afraid of openly addressing it, and brainstorm flimsy objections.

 
The leading reason that trickled back to me (I reached out, but they refuse to speak with us directly) is that paying for background checks on thousands of attendees would be expensive.

 
Nothing in our proposal would require any convention to run even a single background check.

 
Our child-protection policy requires zero investigation, zero effort from convention staff, and zero money. The sole meager request was that if legal documentation were brought to their attention regarding an attendee, they ban that particular criminal convict.

 
I see no benefit in speculating on the motives of those opposing this policy. At this point we could go forward and use this petition as a cudgel or purity test, but that was not the initial intent.

 
The initial intent was to offer a solution. If conventions don’t wish to fix the problem, then I don’t know what more there is for us to do.

 
Thank you again to those who signed, my best wishes to you and to the community in general going forward.