But how do you know reputational harm didn’t fall on the organizers? I assume it did tbh, regardless of bailing? Especially if there are blacklists (I’d prefer to call them “logs”), it seems like that is what they’d be for, eg “X screwed up that major thing even though they told us they were totally equipped and experienced in that type of thing”
Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. I agree the organisers suffered reputational damage regardless. I thought that the previous comment was arguing that a reason for bailing out was to prevent _greater _ reputational damage than actually occurred. I was saying that I think the additional damage would mostly have also accrued to the organizers rather than, say, EA as a whole.
But how do you know reputational harm didn’t fall on the organizers? I assume it did tbh, regardless of bailing? Especially if there are blacklists (I’d prefer to call them “logs”), it seems like that is what they’d be for, eg “X screwed up that major thing even though they told us they were totally equipped and experienced in that type of thing”
Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. I agree the organisers suffered reputational damage regardless. I thought that the previous comment was arguing that a reason for bailing out was to prevent _greater _ reputational damage than actually occurred. I was saying that I think the additional damage would mostly have also accrued to the organizers rather than, say, EA as a whole.