[14:23:48] <wm-bb>	 <djhartman> It’s sort of how I feel about their return of value as well, so fair game ;) (re @bd808: Broadly I would say money is the main constraint that keeps hackathons from having full featured video/audio/transcriptions. Y’a...)
[14:26:15] <wm-bb>	 <Thecladis> It is hard to measure. Like I have definitely seen cases of people becoming more active in technical space as the result of attending hackathons, but that is not something that can be measured as it is not exactly about the code written at the hackathon itself (re @djhartman: It’s sort of how I feel about their return of value as well, so fair game ;))
[14:27:14] <wm-bb>	 <Thecladis> Is 10s cooldown really necessary? I think encouraging people to write longer messages would actually be damaging to the bridge
[14:38:44] <wm-bb>	 <djhartman> I was referring to upper management ;) (re @Thecladis: It is hard to measure. Like I have definitely seen cases of people becoming more active in technical space as the result of atte...)
[14:43:11] <wm-bb>	 <Thecladis> Ah 😁
[17:37:21] <bd808>	 @Thecladis: I think the 10s cooldown is from attempts to combat spam from the Telegram side of things. We have had various rounds of drive-by off topic promotion of commercial hackathons and also cryptocurrency nonsense.
[17:38:16] <wm-bb>	 <Thecladis> Is it that common for them to spam multiple messages?
[17:58:09] <wm-bb>	 <Jan_ainali> We had one a couple of days ago with about tenmessages