Is it the number of people involved? If so, what is the cut-off number for each? Is it where it’s held? What exactly is it?
As someone who has attended dopefests, mini-dopefests, and what could be called micro-dopefests, I would answer that there is no real difference.
Dopefests (of whatever variety) are entirely unofficial meetings among people on the SDBM (sometimes with those on the 3FMB). There is no dividing line or other division among the different types.
However, I suppose people can use the different terms to describe meetings of different sizes and levels of planning. A full-blown dopefest is usually posted on the board several weeks in advance and often people will travel some distance to attend. A mini-doperfest is a bit more impromptu, often occuring when someone announces that he or she will be in town on a particular day, and people get together and meet. Another example is when the folks who work in downtown Washington, DC agreed to meet for lunch on a Friday.
There’s no rules for any of these. If you are interested in meeting dopers in your area, the thing to do is just post a notice in MPSIMS mentioning where you are, and my bet is a dopefest of some sort or another will occur.
Bill
Speaking of MPSIMS, off we go …
The same difference between Moosehead and Miller Lite…
They both “scratch the itch,” but one does it a bit better than the other.
Primarily, an official “mini-dopefest” requires the judicious use of a giant inflatable penis
But, beagledave, can you imagine how much better that mini-doperfest would have been if the giant inflatable penis was uncircumcised?
It’s folks like you frolicing around a giant inflatable penis after its foreskin has been forcably removed that perpuate the Great Circumcision Conspiracy [© 2000 Jack Dean Tyler].
…whacks Billdo upside his noggin with the business end of said G.I.P …
btw, are we going to be seeing any tidbits (say THATS a term I shouldn’t use in this context) from JDT appearing in tract format ala Jack Chick?