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.
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.
As of now, 4 of 10 newest promoted posts are about meetups, as well 4 of 10 newest posts overall. For casual readers like me, having frontpage flooded by this much irrelevant information, _especially promoted-section_, seems really, really discouraging. LW has tendency to contain too much useless meta-discussion compared to the actual rationality-related one, but having frontpage flooded by meta-discussion like this seems rather unbeliveable. Please, let's try to keep at least the promoted-section rationality-related.