Just to be clear, as there seems to be some confusion.
Venues are approved by regional, in a set of guidelines for your local venue called the VSS (Venue Style Sheet).
Since VST reports are posted to the DST, as well as to EC-ST, and other people that the report should go to, Regional gets full information about all the local venues. Additionally, Dale and I discuss what's going on in the Forsaken and Requiem venues in regards to what may be co-inhabited sites, and try to steer clear of overly-popular places to avoid odd CoI's between venues.
Regardless, Jon is generally a reasonable and non-malicious human being. Unless we VST's aren't filling our reports to EC-ST (like me, who has been unable to on the stupid list yet. I hate mailman), we are in no danger of losing our venues. At all.
It's like saying that this nifty bloodline you got approved at regional is now no longer valid because you don't have the DST. While a new DST is welcome to reveiw the VSS's and deny them at will, having NO DST is irrelevant to the status of our venues. If Jon or his venue ARSTs has some other issue with any of our VSSs, they would bring it up to the VST before desanctioning a VSS or venue.
I imagine the only way we'll lose a venue in the near future is to the end of the Year of Fire.
-Gillian Twining
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