Event Waitlist and Capacity Transparency

[Alan Anderson]

I am usually enthusiastic about sharing as much information as possible, but the wait list process could suffer if it were made more open. Keeping it behind the curtain protects the ones making the decisions from a lot of unnecessary pressure from outside, and lets them concentrate on what they believe to be the important factors.

Even just making the numbers available could be problematic. I worry about the case where there are N+1 teams on the wait list but only room for N. That "+1" team currently does not know how many others were not able to attend the event. If you were the only team to fail to make it off the wait list, would you want to know it? Would you want that fact to be published for everybody to see?