[SCA-AE] noise at events

[Flaxy]

>Do  you think noise at events is a problem? (By this I mean loud parties, 
>drumming, etc. after midnight.)

I have several thoughts on the matter:

The first is that the population of the SCA is definitely aging.  A 
lot of the people I met when I was 20 are now in their 50's, and 
perhaps have forgotten the late-night drunken revels that they 
participated in during their misspent youth.  I'm not sure that it's 
fair for me to advocating rules forbidding reasonable levels of noise 
after any hour at a weekend event when I quite clearly rememeber 
drunked parties at Herald's Point at 3 am and learning to belly dance 
in my combat boots at 2 am.  My being 41 doesn't really give me the 
right to say 'no'.

It seems a little strange that anyone would come to a place like 
Pennsic and expect suburban levels of quiet.

If you want all the comfort and quiet of home, then you probably stay home.

This does not include the obvious problem children, who know no 
restraint, are dangerous, and have zero consideration for others.

>Should there be a Kingdom law about  quiet times at events?

If An Tir wants to make a kingdom law about it, then they can go 
right ahead and legislate all the foolishness they want.  I would 
think that all that was needed was the autocrat coming to them and 
saying "You're too loud.  Reduce volume." and having people removed 
in the middle of the night to get the message that polite limits to 
behavior should be the rule.  :shrug:

This also doesn't address the issue of people who want all the 
comfort and quiet of home, who probably should have stayed home.

I am against the establishment of an SCA Nanny State, especially 
since the misadventures with the Pennsic Children's rules have proven 
that draconian policy shifts don't cause the irresponsible to change 
their ways and just tells the rest of us that we should buzz off and 
find something else to do with our vacation time and money.

>Has noise ever adversely affected your enjoyment  of an event?

Only when Pandora's Box seemed to feel that loudly shouting "F-ck!" 
at 4am was somehow the socially appropriate thing to do.  But even 
that group finally figured out that it needed to rein in it's evil 
ways and attempt to get along with its neighbors.

>Or do you go to events to party and make noise?

Is this a leading or judgmental question?

The best way to handle noise is to say that the autocrat, or their 
appointed representatives, get to decide when 'loud' is too loud and 
that people should come to events expecting something other than 
suburban levels of quiet or serenity.

Flaxy