Oh Come on. Just go up to this post by worldly, to take just one example. This person hasn't just done some search on "conferences in Pattaya" but has actually been there.
Can you find the other posts from people who live in Thailand and who say it's no major issue and it's a good place due to the communications anyway yourself?
could possibly, even just remotely,
be a poor choice
All places can be "remotely" bad choices. When people started to object it was Amsterdam. "It's all just sex and drugs!!!11". To a European, that's simply a joke. The same people continuing to object to Pattaya doesn't make the argument stronger.
If Pattaya is such an obviously bad place for a conference, why is one of Thailand's biggest and most modern conference centres there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattaya_Exhibition_and_Convention_Hall