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I honestly fail to see how the lottery improves things. IMHO the best way is to just announce that there's no giveaway this year. Not the best promotion for th

by dotnick 13y ago

I honestly fail to see how the lottery improves things. IMHO the best way is to just announce that there's no giveaway this year. Not the best promotion for the event though.

bestdayever 13y ago
It was definitely depressing to not get tickets last year then see a group of 9 year olds with their parents throughout the auditorium just looking to soak up the free stuff. I wish they didn't do any free stuff to discourage non developers from going.
fidotron 13y ago
I believe the thinking is that the previous setup meant that most people there were the kind that would obsessively refresh windows in order to secure places. The lottery means there's no benefit to those possibly excessively enthused about the idea, and so the tone of the whole thing could be more balanced and professional. They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.
- objclxt 13y ago
  > They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge. Is this no different to selling out in minutes though? Besides, hotels already know a) the dates of Google IO, and b) how many people are attending, so you'd imagine they'd already have priced that into their rates. Unless you're talking about the actual booking systems going offline, but that seems unlikely as lots of people will use aggregators (Expedia, Kayak, etc) at scale.
bradleyjg 13y ago
bestdayever You're currently hellbanned, looks like because of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273699
- libria 13y ago
  Why do that? If you oppose the hellban, email the mods instead of encouraging him to circumvent.
  - stock_toaster 13y ago
    Perhaps the parent objects to hellbanning on principle, and is partaking in some small amount of civil disobedience to right a perceived wrong. If a single post happened to result in my being hellbanned, I would surely hope someone would tell me so I didn't continue wasting my time trying to participate, only to have it sent into the void. I could instead use it as a signal to either move on, or do some self introspection about my actions which resulted in the ban in the first place.
ipedrazas 13y ago
To me, it only shows that Mighty Google cannot get booking to oversubscribed events right...

by dotnick 13y ago

I honestly fail to see how the lottery improves things. IMHO the best way is to just announce that there's no giveaway this year. Not the best promotion for the event though.

bestdayever 13y ago

It was definitely depressing to not get tickets last year then see a group of 9 year olds with their parents throughout the auditorium just looking to soak up the free stuff. I wish they didn't do any free stuff to discourage non developers from going.

fidotron 13y ago

I believe the thinking is that the previous setup meant that most people there were the kind that would obsessively refresh windows in order to secure places. The lottery means there's no benefit to those possibly excessively enthused about the idea, and so the tone of the whole thing could be more balanced and professional. They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge.

objclxt 13y ago
> They're going to have to be careful about hotel bookings though, since the announcement of winners will cause a surge. Is this no different to selling out in minutes though? Besides, hotels already know a) the dates of Google IO, and b) how many people are attending, so you'd imagine they'd already have priced that into their rates. Unless you're talking about the actual booking systems going offline, but that seems unlikely as lots of people will use aggregators (Expedia, Kayak, etc) at scale.

bradleyjg 13y ago

bestdayever You're currently hellbanned, looks like because of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273699

libria 13y ago
Why do that? If you oppose the hellban, email the mods instead of encouraging him to circumvent.
- stock_toaster 13y ago
  Perhaps the parent objects to hellbanning on principle, and is partaking in some small amount of civil disobedience to right a perceived wrong. If a single post happened to result in my being hellbanned, I would surely hope someone would tell me so I didn't continue wasting my time trying to participate, only to have it sent into the void. I could instead use it as a signal to either move on, or do some self introspection about my actions which resulted in the ban in the first place.

ipedrazas 13y ago

To me, it only shows that Mighty Google cannot get booking to oversubscribed events right...