Really? I feel the same as Nathan Driver and Chris Koerner about this. Chris is right... we didn't have as many as we could've. I know I helped at least a dozen people the first day and a little more than that the 2nd day at WCSTL... and that's not including the others who were gracious enough to help and did.

Sorry, I kind of like "Happiness Bar"... it's like Happy Hour, WordPress, and beer (well, minus the beer, but we WordPress devs love our beer... yum/) Frankly, it's one of those things like the Hamburger menu icon that people just need to be educated about. If you don't make an effort to continually announce it before and during the event, it becomes a fail.

Yes, you do get help, but people walk away happy. At the last few WordCamps, I even started sharing funny WordPress memes on Twitter while in the Happiness Bar, in order to add a social aspect to it so people wouldn't be intimidated to come on down.

I remember the first time I manned a Happiness Bar, WordCamp Chicago 2011. There were only 2 of us at the table and I had a line so long at times that I didn't get a chance to go to another session, other than presenting my own, the keynote, opening remarks, and closing remarks. And they were actually good about telling people about the Happiness Bar.