luminosity comments on Meetup posts as discussion threads, please - Less Wrong

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Comment author: luminosity 14 February 2011 01:04:36PM 4 points [-]

I disagree. I think that the current prominence of meetup posts is bad, but I think that until a better technical solution is available (and I am aware I am saying this while not volunteering time to fix it), such as meet ups appearing in the sidebar in their own section, they should be left as is. I don't feel discussion is prominent enough to be the repository for meetup posts. Furthermore, they're while a little annoying, easily scanned over and ignored.

Comment author: Alicorn 14 February 2011 02:45:48PM 4 points [-]

meet ups appearing in the sidebar in their own section

I like this idea.

Comment author: endoself 14 February 2011 06:03:10PM 2 points [-]

As do I.

Comment author: NihilCredo 14 February 2011 03:47:13PM 1 point [-]

I don't feel discussion is prominent enough to be the repository for meetup posts.

I suspect that LW readers who aren't sufficiently interested to occasionally check the Discussion section are also overwhelmingly unlikely to spend an afternoon going to a LW meetup.

Comment author: steven0461 14 February 2011 07:37:54PM 4 points [-]

You suspect wrong; in my experience a good number of the people who come to meetups only follow the site casually.