rejected registration

[russycarps]

I'd sort of agree with you if it was a 2 week window to register, but it is open all year bar 2 weeks ish. Am not saying they don't deserve to go, but maybe that they're not that bothered about it. I'm still in the "I really want to go come-what-may" camp and there's no way I wouldn't be registered in time because I want to do everything possible to ensure I can go.

[mrtourette]

I think it's more the expectation that someone who couldn't be bothered to organise themsleves is then relying on someone else to find them a way to get around the system that others have managed to work within so that the person who couldn't be organised/bothered enough then stands an equal chance as those who have put the effort in, and that such a situation isn't fair on those who cared enough to follow the process.

It isn't really "mocking someone because they chose not to follow the rules", but when the truth doesn't really fit the 'the attitudes displayed by todays festival goers is embarrassing' argument whatcha gonna do?

[Ed209]

I'd sort of agree with you if it was a 2 week window to register, but it is open all year bar 2 weeks ish. Am not saying they don't deserve to go, but maybe that they're not that bothered about it. I'm still in the "I really want to go come-what-may" camp and there's no way I wouldn't be registered in time because I want to do everything possible to ensure I can go.

[mrtourette]

Good point. Perhaps tickets or access to tickets should be made available in places that favour the lazy, the poor or the disinterested in order to ensure an artificially induced randomness to the event. Maybe free giveaways when you buy pints of Stella in Wetherspoons pubs or something.

[russycarps]

Natural selection - innit. The people who are less bothered falling at these administrative hurdles. The people who really really want to go are the ones who will succeed. It's the same with ticket day too - perseverance pays off. Problem is, its not really natural selection, its artificially induced and its not necessarily conducive to producing the randomness and spontaneity that the festival now seems to lack.

[neilloggie]

Considering how long you have to actually do it, and the fact that there's only two or three short periods in any year where you can't, while the sales are actually going on. Pretty shameful really.

[mrtourette]

Indeed, what we have now is a festival full of highly organised administrators.

Yay.

[Ed209]

Good point. Perhaps tickets or access to tickets should be made available in places that favour the lazy, the poor or the disinterested in order to ensure an artificially induced randomness to the event. Maybe free giveaways when you buy pints of Stella in Wetherspoons pubs or something.

[mrtourette]

Well done on a ridiculous extrapolation of my point.

Edited October 1, 2013 by mrtourette

[Guest]

Considering how long you have to actually do it, and the fact that there's only two or three short periods in any year where you can't, while the sales are actually going on. Pretty shameful really.

[whisty]

some people dont like putting their names and addresses on a database

[Bobs]

Doesn't necessarily have to be your real name, it's only a ticket registration not some government thing.

[Ed209]

Right!

I don't put my full name in, i put what my friends and colleagues call me, which is Bobby!

[russycarps]

Doesn't necessarily have to be your real name, it's only a ticket registration not some government thing.

Edited October 1, 2013 by russycarps

[mrtourette]

Braying lol

[fred quimby]

But the fact remains, whole swathes of people were excluded because of this registration process. A process which in my opinion should be hated. Or at least viewed as nothing more than a (debatably) necessary evil.

[Mr Splodge]

Surely if he really wanted to go he would of registered in advance, it's his loss hope he enjoys watching it on BBC.

[CaledonianGonzo]

The true spirit of the festival is to not give a shit about going to the festival.

[Guest]

the registration process was the final nail in the coffin for a lot of people. A lot of people who made the festival into what it is now.

It's a necessary evil, nothing more. Seeing some of the stuff posted in this thread is embarrassing.

[fred quimby]

Got talking to some cats in Green Futures this year,

[fred quimby]

Got talking to some cats in Green Futures this year, telling me about how they felt like capitalist society had shafted them with the registration process.

[russycarps]

Got talking to some cats in Green Futures this year, telling me about how they felt like G had shafted them with the registration process. When the festival started selling out, the festival stopped being a big event that green activists would go to. Anybody without a fixed abode was fucked, anybody without a computer became fucked later down the line, any request to Eavii to set tickets a small amount of tickets for the people who'd been the heart and soul of the festival for so many years were sidestepped. It was really sad, the guy I spoke to said in a few years he didn't expect there to be a Green Futures, most of the crowd that made Glastonbury great for him now saw it as basically V Festival.

[fred quimby]

Out of interest who were these people who "made" the festival?

How were they oppressed?

I now it's just your nostagla kicking in again.

[russycarps]

Out of interest who were these people who "made" the festival?

How were they oppressed?

I now it's just your nostagla kicking in again.

Edited October 2, 2013 by russycarps

[mrtourette]

Theft, physical assault, verbal abuse.