I'm sure pretty much everything that can be said about the WisCon thing already has been...but the first thing that leaps into my mind is how this illustrates just how much anime cons exist in their own world - I guess mainly in terms of the relationship between the anime fans, the anime convention organizers, and the Industry. It's pretty much a very poorly kept secret that some guests are difficult to deal with, others are plain-out unpleasant to be around...and at least a couple of others are fairly infamous for basically treating a con primarily as the place where they get to hook up with a fangirl, with no consequences and very little work on their part.

But, hey, they are Industry - and therefore, on a different level from us mere non-industry people. And of course, this then goes back to that whole "It's not about what you're like, it's about what you like" (or I guess, 'what you do'") motto that's supposed or alleged to lie at the root of being a fan - and about the con being that place where you the fan (well, and the organizer) get to set the rules precisely because you don't really get to set them in the outside world.