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Was I the only one reciting the rules to Fight Club while reading the article? Rule 8: If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight. http://en
by davisp 16y ago
Was I the only one reciting the rules to Fight Club while reading the article?
Rule 8: If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club#Plot_summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club#Plot_summary
Basic rules that come to mind to keep it hacker centric could be:
1. If this is your first night to Hack and Tell, you must
Tell.
2. Before leaving Hack And Tell you must vote yay or nay
on each Tell. If your Tell has less than X votes, you
are not allowed back for Y weeks.
3. If you're just returning from a Y week layoff, you must
Tell.
4. You must have a Tell every Z weeks.
I'm not at all certain what the correct values for X, Y, and Z are. Z would obviously depend on the group size and time allotment. I think voting should be anonymous and not announced until after everyone's left so voters are more likely to be honest.
If it gets popular I could even see having a Hack and Tell website that hosted videos of "successful" Tells and so forth. Going out on a limb and having national votes to try and get a group of hackers together for a nationally voted "Best Hack" event or some such.
Could be fun.
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- apgwoz 16y agoWhat exactly are you voting on? This isn't a competition. I should also note that I hand select the people that actually present after taking a look at the product description and a) checking to see that it doesn't violate the "no startup", "no work related things"... or attempt to. b) if there's overflow invite the ones I think will be best. So far it hasnt' failed, but, there's only been about 25 talks total over 3 nights. Incidentally, don't do more than 7 or 8 of these talks a night--it gets way too long too quick.
- davisp 16y agoThe idea about voting isn't to select a "best" hack each night, its to say "take some time to find a better hack". That way if someone does get through the pre-screening you have a way to say, "take a couple weeks to think about your next Tell." Granted the nation wide voting idea kinda gives the wrong impression on that part. I still think it'd be a good idea to keep videos somewhere. Granted it was mostly just hand waving on how to keep the non-hacker attendees from overwhelming the hacker presenters.
- dagw 16y agoSurely interacting with other people presenting their great hacks is a good way to get inspiration for your own hacks and to get a feel for what your group considers a "great hack". Kicking people out and telling people to work in isolation until they stumble upon something that meets your requirements seems both elitist and pointless.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoI think rule 1 is good. The rest makes it sound like some combination of a a big bureaucratic corporation and survivor.