Comments on: Meetup RSVP

Meetup RSVP

empath — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:32:25 -0800

Pony request: Meetup RSVP Kinda like a favorite, except a little link that says you're planning on going, and a list of people somewhere on the page of who is planning on going.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:35:11 -0800

can you just build upcoming.org for us? kthnxbi!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:36:07 -0800

seriously though, if you read the text responses, they kind of spell out who is and isn't going to be at a meetup, I dunno if we need to make that more explicit with a giant I'M GOING or MAYBE thing.

By: empath

empath — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:39:13 -0800

I mean, you're already halfway there with the list of upcoming meet-ups and photo stuff.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:05:27 -0800

I don't think it needs to be more explicit than what we already have People say they'll come or don't, and then some come and some don't. A precise headcount is not needed, and I would hate to build anything that gives the impression you can't just show up.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:08:01 -0800

I say we kill'em all and let God sort them out.

Because that always works.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:14:06 -0800

Okay, now that I've gotten the silly remark out of my system...

...I think that this isn't that bad of an idea, but could easily be implemented externally. Surely there's a website somewhere that does that and whoever would call the meetup could provide a link to it. If this is sorely lacking then people will start using it more and more. However, this has never occurred to me, the in-thread "I'm going" always seems to work just fine.

Also, I like the texty usenetness of MeFi, but then the internet I first fell in love with was usenet. Oh, logging onto a unix server, typing "nn" and having a whole world of people just as obsessed with weird stuff open up to me.

Now where did I put my cane... and has somebody been borrowing my false teeth, because they don't taste right.

By: desuetude

desuetude — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:36:45 -0800

I support this pony. Sometimes you could use a rough head count -- Philly's recent bowlup, for a specific example. Or even to just help decide what the most appropriate venue would be.

But I think we could jury-rig it by adding a few comments in the thread for those of us so-dorkily-inclined. MeFites could favorite their response:

* Yes
* No
* Maybe
* I live nowhere near you people but would attend if I were able and wish to participate in this thread by favoriting something.

By: oneirodynia

oneirodynia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:45:01 -0800

Can't you just explicitly ask in thread who's going because you need a head count?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:48:35 -0800

People will still flake out. Only now we'll get people who will freak out that they clicked "commit" and will be too timid to comment in the thread that they're not coming after all. "OMG I SAID I WAS GOING NOW I HAVE TO GO ARRGHH I'M JUST GOING TO CRAWL IN A HOLE". The only people you can rely on for a firm yes/no are the people you already know because they're meetup regulars. And since you know them, you've already got a phone number or working e-mail address for those guys.

In my experience, most MeFi people are timid, mouselike creatures who fear unmediated and/or unintoxicated socialization. This will not help. I prefer the solution we used at the BradSucks/frenetic meetup in Boston. Plutor and I hacked into the Matrix and found phone numbers for the equivocators and then we took turns making harassing phone calls and swatting people til they either showed up or were arrested.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:54:51 -0800

I agree with Eideteker 100%.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:00:58 -0800

Seconding Eideteker's harassment policy. It was tense, but much fun.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:02:45 -0800

And I agree with ThePinkSuperhero. I like that Meetups are casual, show-up-if-you're-in-the-mood things. (They are, aren't they?)

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:09:31 -0800

It might deprive MeFi's librarian population of one of their primary functions..

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:40:36 -0800

Also, I so do not want to do this because I don't even want "No" as an option. Can you imagine if every person that opened a meetup thread that was no where near where they live felt the need to click no?

It'd be like Going to Meetup: 21 yes 5 maybe 53,468 No

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:48:08 -0800



Will you be at the meetup? [   ] Yes    [ X ] No

Will you be my valentine?  [   ] Yes    [ X ] No

Please?                    [   ] Yes    [ X ] No

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:52:20 -0800

"No" would only be useful as a cancel option. If you'd already clicked "Yes" but then couldn't make it, you could click "No". Not that there aren't jerks who wouldn't just click click click to inflate the No vote. Just like the fuckers who voted for Bush lolmarite?

My hanging chads, let me show you them

By: Ian A.T.

Ian A.T. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:04:52 -0800

Also, maybe we as a community could stand to be a little less, uh, meetup-fixated...?

I guess that came out wrong. Obviously meeting new people is one of life's pleasures, and one that we seem to find less and less opportunities for as we get older.

But within the last six months or so, it seems that meetup announcements have become more common, yet without a significant rise in actual meetups. Asking about a possible meetup has replaced putting one together.

Believe me, I understand being excited about something only to have my enthusiasm wane as the work involved becomes more apparent. So maybe a better way for residents of small and mid-sized towns to handle meetups would be using MeFiMail and the Users Near You feature to put one together, then posting the pictures and the lulz to MetaTalk after it actually happens.

Why does #27598 hate fun?

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:27 -0800

I think it's wise for all meetups to be planned by someone before they're posted to Metatalk. To post, hey, maybe we should have a meetup somewhere or sometime maybe is the online equivalent of "Whaddyou wanna do?" "I dunnnno, whaddayou wanna do?"

By: Phire

Phire — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:24:24 -0800

I dunno, I don't really see the point of this. I mean, yeah, sure, it's a bit nervewracking when no one has given a firm yes and you're the only one at the venue staring around forlornly for people who look like they might belong on MeFi, but that's half the fun, right?

... right?

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:54:36 -0800

MetaFilter: staring around forlornly for people who look like they might belong

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:58:22 -0800

can you just build upcoming.org for us? kthnxbi!

Come on, Yahoo's losing employees, so they must be lookin' to buy more stuff!

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:08:06 -0800

lolmarite?

posted by Eideteker at 4:52 PM on March 27 [+] [!]

Lolmarite: official foodstuff of Meta?

By: breezeway

breezeway — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:50:44 -0800

Fuck that, I don't want some motherfucker riding my ass because I said I'd show, "Oh breezy, you checked yes; where were you last night? It was so much fun without you."

I was at home filing down bullet tips and making fuckin' waffles, do you mind?

By: vytae

vytae — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:31:03 -0800

Desuetude's idea actually makes a lot of sense. "Please favorite this comment if you plan to attend, so we can get a rough headcount for reserving bowling lanes." You'd have to trust people to play along nicely, but that'd be true for any other "click this button to rsvp" type functionality, too.