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Vaniver comments on Open thread, July 16-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: David_Gerard 15 July 2013 08:13PM

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Comment author: philh 16 July 2013 10:40:48PM 12 points [-]

[Meta] Most meetup threads have no comments. It seems like it would be useful for people to post to say "I'm coming", both for the organiser and for other people to judge the size of the group. Would this be a good social norm to cultivate? I worry slightly that it would annoy people who follow the recent comments feed, but I can't offhand think of other downsides.

Comment author: Vaniver 17 July 2013 09:10:38PM 5 points [-]

Many meetup attendees don't have LW accounts, so it may not be a very good measure.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 18 July 2013 02:05:18AM 3 points [-]

and even the ones who do will likely not bother to vote every single week for regular meetups.

Comment author: drethelin 18 July 2013 06:14:57PM 1 point [-]

this is what I found when i tried to use facebook: many of the people who go to meetups who even have facebook accounts don't bother responding.