Emile comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 19 December 2013 07:59:51PM *  0 points [-]

... and of those five, for two of them the comments consist of me complaining that the meetup location hasn't been included in the title.

That being said, personally I don't mind the meetup posts that much, and I'm not sure that moving them to their own section would be an improvement. I find it pretty likely that nobody would ever look there.

Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 20 December 2013 08:04:43AM 6 points [-]

Next iteration: meetup announcements occupy their own tab, top of Discussion starts with an "ad" line about recent announcements, in a bright color or otherwise distinguished: "Recent meetup announcements: Moscow, Tel-Avid, Boulder, London", every city is a link.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 19 December 2013 09:10:11PM 2 points [-]

I find it pretty likely that nobody would ever look there.

If true, what should we infer about the policy of having them cluttering up Discussion?

Comment author: Emile 19 December 2013 09:45:11PM 1 point [-]

That policy forces everybody to see the meetup announcements, and thus probably increases meetup attendance (and knowing your announcement will have a wide (forced) public encourages people to create meetups).

Comment author: Lumifer 19 December 2013 10:02:53PM 2 points [-]

That policy forces everybody to see the meetup announcements

No, it doesn't. Partially because of the meetup clutter I don't look at the posts page at all and just go straight into comments.

And what is the cost-benefit analysis for forcing everyone to read about meetups all over the globe?