@herdingdata Things like this work *great* in closed, trusting environments. You find them at sci-fi conventions (especially small ones, like Redemption) and bigger, weirder, events like Wasteland Weekend.
I could even see pulling off a lot of stuff in a semi-open environment, like maybe a uni campus at Fresher's week.
But to have stuff just out in the open in public, all it takes is one arsehole and the thing falls apart. So do you now guard all the elements? Needs a lot of people!
@semanticist yeh you’re right. I definitely don’t have a good answer. I was impressed at how generally trustworthy the EMF crowd were. I can’t help but wonder: if there were more fun easter eggs to be found, could it sway some people to divert their effort from being am asshole into going in search for them…? Idk
@herdingdata I think no, not least because some people have no imagination. Others have no time and have been ground down. In the EMF/convention/Fresher's Week context one thing attendees generally have is a lot of flexible time. It's hard to go a wander through Greyfriar's to find the secret wossname if you've only got 30 minutes for lunch, or worse, are late for work, or picking up your kids, or...
@semanticist ok I see where you’re coming from but can I offer a little counterpoint: pokemon go was pretty successful for a little while. I could barely grab a sandwich without hearing colleagues chat about it excitedly and make plans to go find more
