The medium sized cons are just gone...

This applies to both Artists and Vendors (you usually see it more with Vendors because most Artists are Shy Little Beans™ [affectionate] uncomfortable with eye contact).

So a lot of people get annoyed with folks who Carnival Bark at customers, but it's still usually considered generally acceptable if done from within your own booth, right?

What these people are doing is going outside their booth and standing in the aisle. They then try to rope passersby into looking at their wares.

A basic illustration:

This causes a few things -- first off, it puts off customers who aren't interested in that booth. Those folks will try to get by as fast as possible, and if you're, say, the neighboring vendor it means that these folks speed away never even noticing the existence of the other vendors in the area.

The customers who ARE interested end up stopping, but now you have an additional person (or persons) in the aisle, clogging up what is often a narrow walkway.

So, in the end, it's rude to attendees and it's rude to other vendors/artists. If you're selling, you do it from your space. That's the social contract.

And sometimes the literal contract.

Don't sell from the aisles.

People who go directly to other tables and try to steal people are far worse, but that doesn't make aisle sellers less irritating.

Ryan Kopf is apparently running for public office.