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I think the conference was facing a number of people who refused to participate as speakers due to Crockford's attendance. The conference organizers presumably felt pressured to do something to prevent speakers from leaving en masse. That's slightly different than what you were saying, but it seems like an important distinction.

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The proper response to this is to show the speakers who were protesting to the door. It is the same scenario as when an employee tries to blackmail an employer into getting a raise or a promotion.

But if a significant group of employees do it, that's called... a strike, which is absolutely a reasonable thing for an employer to acquiesce to.

    >  prevent speakers from leaving en masse

"Leaving en masse"? The unsubstantiated claims get ever more outrageous and ridiculous with each new telling. Fortunately they didn't actually say anything at all, so that facts cannot be checked and fantasy can run its course unhindered.

Read this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/51e2jb/nodevemb...

Two people, none of which provided any evidence.

> was facing a number of people

A number of people or just one or two? It seems like an important distinction.

one, two and zero are all numbers.

This is of course correct, at least if you ignore the implied meaning, which is a "group of". And yes I know that a two people could be called a group.

But what is more important is that you illustrate the hypocritical argument, that if a "number of people" do object the participation of another speaker it is ok to uninvite him. Nodovember should be more concrete or shut up.

Which makes more sense, but I'm honestly not understanding the reasoning behind those speakers who threatened to leave, and no one in all of this has really had anything of substance to point to... I'm more confused than anything...

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