Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
We likely don’t say it nearly often enough, but for the record once again: everyone in Management is ridiculously grateful to everybody who works on both Twit-arr and Cruise Monkey, and we are annually bowled over by the sheer amount of hours, manpower and creativity that goes into them. We, and the hundreds of people who use them each year, cannot thank you enough for the work you all do; and it is one of the things we are proudest of that JCCC can inspire this degree of dedication.
We would hope that David’s Wifi Temperance Brigade is taken for what it is: a voluntary, imaginary, non-legally-binding, and more than a little tongue-in-cheek pledge (we would hope the irony is not lost on everyone of the “shunning of technology” while riding on a 4000+ passenger floating hotel on the ocean), designed to encourage those who are interested to unplug themselves for a while. Insofar as it challenges people to try something they are not used to, it is in keeping with the core tenets of the JCCC experience. It is most definitely not intended to insult, discount, or drop poop or any other form of effluvium onto the hard work of those who have developed Twit-arr and Cruise Monkey.
EDIT TO INCLUDE: additionally, with the Brigade being completely consequence-free, there is literally nothing (beyond one’ sown sense of literalness and/or duty) stopping anyone from taking the Pledge, then using Twit-arr and Cruise Monkey anyway. Both apps are “talked up” prominently in pre-cruise official emails, the forums and Facebook; and featured heavily in the first day SeaMonkey newsletter, not to mention used by hundreds of Sea Monkeys during the cruise. We would hope that most reasonable people, even first-timers, can find their way to them one way or the other, and that their mention in the Pledge is not most people’s sole or first exposure to them.
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