Re:Is Werewolf Killing the Conference Hackfest? (2007)
by esrauch on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:46AM
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> like drinking, Werewolf is not everyone’s cup of tea; do non-players simply get to stay home and get nothing?
I'm someone who really doesn't enjoy Mafia/Werewolf, but it's just the reality that it's impossible to include everyone: some people don't want to X for any X. Overnight hacking sessions until 4am are also exclusionary. Werewolf seems better than binge drinking in terms of inclusion.
> did Werewolf simply meme-infect the conference population
The evidence would be essentially all other conferences, which are "bad" in the way the article is griping about and which rarely involve Werewolf. 2007 Rubyconf sounds normal, so it seems like it would have been more productive to try to discuss what made 2002 Rubyconf special rather than what made 2007 Rubyconf not-special.
I'm someone who really doesn't enjoy Mafia/Werewolf, but it's just the reality that it's impossible to include everyone: some people don't want to X for any X. Overnight hacking sessions until 4am are also exclusionary. Werewolf seems better than binge drinking in terms of inclusion.
> did Werewolf simply meme-infect the conference population
The evidence would be essentially all other conferences, which are "bad" in the way the article is griping about and which rarely involve Werewolf. 2007 Rubyconf sounds normal, so it seems like it would have been more productive to try to discuss what made 2002 Rubyconf special rather than what made 2007 Rubyconf not-special.