I support (almost) any change in policy whose effect is to reduce the amount of time taken, when seeing what's new on LW, to skip past all the meetup stuff.
If a meetup post's title contains a list of cities that isn't a complete list of cities whose meetups it describes, the title should be written in such a way that it doesn't give the impression that it is a complete list.
If someone is looking for information about meetups in Fooville, at present they can scan for posts with "meetups" and "Fooville" in the title. After the proposed change, what will those people do?
I propose for comment the following alteration of the LW meetup promotion policy:
* The weekly meetup roundup will contain, in its title, only the names of cities which have not previously had an LW meetup, or which have not had an LW meetup in the last year.
* On occasions where no such name appears in the title, the meetup roundup post will still appear in Main but will not be Promoted.
* Cities having a first-time meetup, or where a new meetup is being started by a new organizer after a hiatus, should have additional info about that meetup and its organizer appearing in a prominent, top-of-post position in the roundup post.
This is intended to make it easier for new meetups to gain attention, by requiring hopeful LWers awaiting a new meetup in their area to pay attention to a smaller number of promoted posts and a smaller number of cities appearing in the titles of Main posts.