[jankedout]

Please don't organize hackathons. They're inauthentic - running counter to coder culture - and a waste of time.

[mulcahey]

Some people really enjoy them though!

To each their own.

[mathattack]

Exactly. It's more like, "Don't show up to the hackathons that you don't like."

[angrow]

What's wrong, exactly, with people saying something is bad and shouldn't be done, when they think it is bad and shouldn't be done?

[jeremysmyth]

Quite a lot, if they hold power or influence. One word: Antivax.

This is why it's always OK to call BS. Sometimes you're calling BS, and sometimes you're spouting it. Debate works until it doesn't, and then you get out.

[kirykl]

Antivax movement is ignorance of proven science. Expressing the opinion that hackathons are bad is debate.