I had hoped Wiscon would learn from Readercon's example, but that doesn't seem to be happening, unfortunately.

I was really hoping it would work that way! Readercon was so public and so nearly disastrous and took so much work to recover—much of which was done round the clock by people far more assiduous than myself—it seemed impossible that it should not stand as a there but for the grace of the safety committee caution. I don't understand what happened. I don't know if they will be able to pull themselves out of this spin. Readercon had a tidal wave of public opinion against it and it took this statement and then a lot of demonstrated commitment to the ideals expressed therein to avoid drowning. "These are official WisCon actions, and will not be affected by future philosophical or policy discussions" sounds pretty non-retractable to me.