Why do you prefer offline conversations to online?

Off the top of my head, I can name 3 advantages of online communication, which are quite important to LessWrong:

• You don't have to go anywhere. Since the LW community is distributed all over the world, it is really important; when you go to meetups, you can communicate only with people who happen to be in the same place as you, when you communicate online, you can communicate with everyone.

• You have more time to think before reply, if you need to. For example, you can support your arguments with relevant research papers or data.

• As you have noticed, online articles and discussions remain available on the site. You have proposed to write articles after offline events, but a) not everything will be covered by them and b) it requires additional effort.

Well, enjoy offline events if you like to; but the claim that people should always prefer offline activities over online activities is highly questionable, IMO.