[AnonChick]

You're not understanding the problem, if you think that's the solution. The problem is people -do- go there sometimes several -hours- early, and "claim" seats by putting things on them, or roping them off. They do this expecting that no one will take those seats. And then, they leave. And sometimes they'll come back for the event, sometimes they won't. In the meantime, people who show up between the time the seats were "claimed" and the time of the show, see all these empty seats, and don't sit in them, because they were supposedly claimed by people who *ARE NOT THERE* to sit in them.

This is unfair for the people who are willing to actually sit down while they wait for the event. It is the same mentality that has people on cruise ships showing up at 6 in the morning to claim seats at the pool, then go off to spend their day, show up at 1 in the afternoon, knowing that no one took "their" seat - and dozens of people who want to actually sit at those seats, dare not, because they think the "claimant" will show up any minute. And of course, they don't, because they put towels there knowing that no one will move them. It's a herd mentality and it's incredibly effective. It's also incredibly manipulative and unfair.