default_entry said: DO most employers do a background check? Could that simply push venues to hired judges since they would basically come 'pre-vetted?' Click to expand...

Criminal background checks aren't typical for positions like store clerk or convention volunteers. You normally only see those in larger chain stores or if the position requires people's personal information or lots of money handling, and even then it's almost never small businesses that do it. Because it's not cheap. Why spend money doing a background check on a minimum wage employee who may or may not stick around? Or for convention employees and volunteers who are only "working" at most a few weeks out of the year?What it's going to do is incentivize stores to hold stop holding DCI sanctioned events like Friday Night Magic because why go through the hassle when people will show up anyway? If you're going to have events, why bother with judges unless they're required? Why would you apply to be a judge in the first place or continue judging events if you'll just have to hand over your personal information constantly to people with no safeguards for how that information's used or stored?Plus the thing's so sloppily worded, it may apply to things like D&D Adventure League DMs, or people employed by the store who have nothing to do with WotC events. Do they need to do background checks on the pizza delivery driver that caters game night? It technically meets the requirements.To me, it comes across as a company more concerned with being seen doingthan doing something thatMuch like YouTube's latest partner changes which will do nothing to stop the abuse of the system it's purported to fix but will, in fact, directly harm smaller and more niche creators (especially those in tabletop gaming and RPGs which have a limited audience already). Or the various attempts by Twitter or Facebook to deal with harassment."Because of this problem, we did a thing!"How does this thing fix the problem, though?"....we did a thing!"But that won't actu--"We. Did. A. Thing."