[Hytosys]

I would love for this to penetrate smaller towns and cities where meeting people is particularly difficult. Promising morals in the Q&A.

Your hero image[1] is a major turnoff and leads me to understand that I'll be meeting with a culturally homogeneous group.

[1] https://res.cloudinary.com/hrscywv4p/image/upload/c_limit,f_...

[shakers]

A) Thanks for the feedback Hytosys. For smaller cities/towns/etc we'll arrange something for free since the audience size is smaller. B) Hero image...happy to replace it with another stock photo. Pixabay was our stock photo search engine and this was literally the only one of multiple people eating a table. That being said, not our ideal, and I'd love something better if you have any suggestions.

[dlss]

Under the advanced menu, Flickr lets you search for creative commons commercial use allowed. There's tons of great eating photos to choose from :)

(though FWIW I liked your hero shot)

[shiggerino]

That is absolutely ridiculous. Nowhere on the site is it implied that you have to be white to participate, and if someone flakes out at the last moment at the restaurant because it's not a "safe space" where they can talk about what special snowflakes they are, that's probably for the better for the three other participants.

On the contrary, I think diversity is strongly implied, how can someone be an interesting person if they just parrot the same opinions and beliefs back at you?

I guess it boils down to whether the organizers want to just score Silicon Valley brownie points or if they want to have fun and create something unique.

[EliRivers]

Nobody said "white" until you did.

[shiggerino]

That's the only thing I could see that they had in common in the picture.

[Hytosys]

Are you unconvinced that an entirely homogeneous group is unwelcoming to people outside the group? Diversity in groups is perpetually self-limited by images like this. Marketers abuse this phenomenon to divide and conquer demographics.

It's not scoring Silicon Valley brownie points, it's scoring a culturally global audience. Your insinuation is that you cannot be a socially responsible company while "having fun and creating something unique."

[shiggerino]

>Are you unconvinced that an entirely homogeneous group is unwelcoming to people outside the group?

That depends entirely on the signals they send out to those people outside. If they were out setting crosses on fire, then absolutely, I'd agree with you.

>Diversity in groups is perpetually self-limited by images like this.

I just don't see the homogeneous group in the image. In fact the people in the picture seem quite heterogeneous. A perfectly adequate image to illustrate the purpose of the company.

I'm sure there are people out there who would balk at the concept of joining the group in question. Such as snooty noveau riche types that refuse to dine with plebs, black rappers who harass others for "acting white", or the Sura 5:51 orthodox, but in those cases they are the ones being divisive, not Captain's Table, and there is plenty of potential for diversity between the extreme outliers.