The politics of games.

[Privateerkev]

During the course of my one spectacular failure of an attempt to participate in a backroom conversation, I have found that many in there rather compete in a sort of a endurance contest and attempt to outlast each other with weak arguments, than actually try to hold a healthy debate.

That being said, I don't think the answer is to open up "mini-backrooms" all over the .Org. If there are problems with the backroom being daunting to those of us used to a different debating style, than the answer more seems to be to look into the backroom culture itself and see why it doesn't seem to be working for some people.