I think stuff failing is usually not as bad as it seems, and most of the reputational harm would have fallen on the organisers (who deserved it). On the other hand there are substantial risks to creating a perception that poorly executed things will be bailed out.
So from an outside view (I don’t know much about the event itself) I say they should have let it fail.
(EDIT: to be clear, in light of the new comments about the Future Forum: I think bailouts are often bad, if the Future Forum wasn’t actually bailed out then great. )
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.
I think stuff failing is usually not as bad as it seems, and most of the reputational harm would have fallen on the organisers (who deserved it). On the other hand there are substantial risks to creating a perception that poorly executed things will be bailed out.
So from an outside view (I don’t know much about the event itself) I say they should have let it fail.
(EDIT: to be clear, in light of the new comments about the Future Forum: I think bailouts are often bad, if the Future Forum wasn’t actually bailed out then great. )
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.