> Seems like the lesson here is that nobody wants to go to the party unless they know who else is going to be there. Makes kind of a chicken and egg problem. T

> Seems like the lesson here is that nobody wants to go to the party unless they know who else is going to be there. Makes kind of a chicken and egg problem. This may indeed be tricky, but if it was "just" that he'd been sneaky about it to get the ball rolling and he subsequently had fixed the issue by replacing the fake women with real women before starting to sign up attendees it'd have been a lot easier to have sympathy.