Ask HN: Why speakers are counting hands on every conference talk?

1 pointshellwd9y ago2 comments

I'm wondering what's the purpose of doing that. Maybe there are some speakers which actually use that number to say or not to say something, but I think most of them are doing that without any purpose.

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efm9y ago· 1 in thread

It's an audience engagement tactic.

hellwdOP9y ago

To be honest, it's getting really boring and they should invent different tactic :)

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