Yes, I thought that there was a good chance of that, which is why I approached this so cautiously. People in good technical jobs -- a good fraction of LWers -- rarely care about networking.

And as to (2), that is why I said that at this stage, any connections would be done personally, not throough some sort of online mechanism.

As to (1), I think that LWers who know each other face-to-face connect to each other the way any other friends/acquaintances do, but I suspect that online community members, even ones with a strong online reputation, rarely reach out to each other.

(Still, a few people have in the past contacted me and I contacted a few, in each case without prior direct contact, so it does happen occasionally.)

See also the caveats in my post.

That said, I think that if carefully designed, certain business contacts among LWers who do not know each other F2F could be valuable to everyone involved.