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Forget about T&Cs, it's a part of the social norms of most conferences. Don't like it? Don't attend.
by extra88 8y ago
Forget about T&Cs, it's a part of the social norms of most conferences. Don't like it? Don't attend.
- heyjudy 8y agoYou're trying to force your "norms" on other people. Read the HN guidelines again because you forgot those too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Comment again when not acting like a dick. Thanks.
- sctb 8y agoWe've been giving this account a chance to participate appropriately, but if you continue to comment like this we'll ban it.
- AlexB138 8y ago> Forget about T&Cs, it's a part of the social norms of most conferences. Don't like it? Don't attend. You wouldn't know it by looking at the current sad state of tech culture in 2019, but a lot of people in the "Hacker" culture aren't particularly inclined to capitulate to social norms and much prefer freedom.
- chrisseaton 8y agoThe freedom you have is to not attend the event, rather than to attend and then not follow the norms there.
- ghaff 8y agoThere are tons of casual community events of various sizes that are just fine with you identifying or not identifying yourself to whatever degree you want to. What's being discussed here is mostly badges for commercial events like Google I/O. If you don't like the norms of these types of events--scanned badges, real names, probably a fair bit of photography and video of those attending--you have lots of other options.
- sigi45 8y agoIt's not. Sitting in a conference, no one has one. Know enough conferences with only wrist bands. And no the people making them probably care more for attendance than for showing your name.