Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
@mikesphar I have no idea if people feel pressure, really. I just know that personally, as someone who literally spent months of his evenings working on an app in his spare time, it feels pretty crappy to have someone go up on stage and declare “please join me in pointedly ignoring this useful thing a bunch of seamonkeys made” potentially before new seamonkeys even know our tools exist.
It was different when it was just about disconnecting on the first cruise, but when it was declared that twit-arr and cruisemonkey counted as well, it made me feel pretty frustrated. Because I do sympathize with the intent of the temperance brigade: to not spend all your time checking in back home or on the internet.
As for spending all your time on twit-arr during shows, it’s just as rude on the ship as it is in a theater on dry land; I try not to do it, and I don’t like distracting phone screens everywhere, but it’s not specifically a fault of twit-arr or cruisemonkey.