PAX '05 Tops 9,000 In Attendance

Gamespot has word that this year's PAX convention saw more than 9,000 attendees. The runaway success of the Penny Arcade Expo has led them to make plans for an East Coast PAX sometime in 2008. From the article: "In fact, he said that expansion plans are afoot. Not only will the Bellevue convention change locations next year, Penny Arcade plans an East Coast version of PAX in 2008, specific location as yet undecided. 'Actually,' Khoo comments, 'most of our readers are on the East Coast.'"

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Misleading summary

[Red Flayer]

I'm getting extremely bothered about the lack of accuracy in Slashdot article summaries.

Go ahead, mod me down. But editors should not just be approving articles they think are interesting or appropriate, they should be (gasp!) editing the summary copy.

FTA: "Khoo told us that this year's convention had 7,000 attendees as of the end of Saturday, and he expected total attendence to hit around 8,500 or 9,000."

From the summary: "Gamespot has word that this year's PAX convention saw more than 9,000 attendees"

One quick check of the article would have revealed the contradiction. It's not such a big deal with this article, but factual misrepresentation is totally irresponsible.