Worst potential to actual session EVAR

With a title like "Advanced Theming," a theming session is guaranteed to attract a whole lot of people into the room. When the outline of the session is posted online and includes such goodies as how to

# keep themes compact and easy to manage
# take advantage of Drupal 6's sub-theming features
# use the more flexible hooks available to modules to do theming
# use Zen and the Themer package to reduce amount of theming required
# take advantage of existing styles to solve common problems

the room will be PACKED.

Oh, and hey, it was.

The session had so much potential! It was a session I was REALLY interested in attending. There weren't many sessions I figured I'd learn from, this was one of them.

Until less than halfway through, I had to think, "Hello, Tim."

Some guy asked an innocent question. It was clear that a session labelled "advanced" was outside of his experience, and this is okay if you recognize this and adjust your questions accordingly (by, say, NOT asking them). Arguing with the session speakers, however, is NOT okay. The moron would not shut up, and the speakers didn't stop him. He didn't even noticed the ENTIRE ROOM turning to look, no, GLARE at him.

If there were 300 people in the room (a good estimate), the man had just wasted 120 man hours with his inane arguing with the speakers.

Instead of leaving the session with new knowledge, I left frustrated.

My advice to people at a conference can be summarized into one sentence:

"If you don't know what you're talking about, please shut the fuck up."