Up voted as I hadn’t considered that this is how planners were doing things—namely, making a “blanket announcement” and then coming back with a specific time/date.
On the other hand, I consider far better tools to exist than top-level posts for actual planning. Couldn’t posts, then, simply announce that a meetup will be occurring soon, then direct others off-site to a more suited tool for discussion and nailing down specifics?
Anyone who finds the first link will find the second and can track the resultant decision off-site.
On the other hand, yet again, I’m reminded that this is an issue with how feed readers track this stuff… so maybe my request is just silly. From the actual site’s perspective, there’s still only one post, so it simply contains more information once updated. It’s only Google Reader that treats it as two posts.
In the end, I’m inclined to say that you’ve convinced me to change my mind. I didn’t realize the purpose was for a two-part planning/announcement process and interpreted the evidence as signs of hasty composing of posts. I was wrong.
I also think that is perfectly reasonable—use discussion for discussion.… then top-level for a “formal announcement.” On the other hand, some have mentioned that they don’t think everyone reads the discussion area and think they’ll get more meetup attendees via top-level posts.
This is another reason I point to other tools—those who want to receive updates about a meetup will, and only those for the group have to see such announcements, not everyone.
I really wonder who, stopping by LW for the first time, will need to see a top-level meetup post because they happen to live in that area and happen to have seen the LW site on the day where and announcement was near the top.
I think most people who want meetups in the first place would be willing to track such things elsewhere.
Up voted as I hadn’t considered that this is how planners were doing things—namely, making a “blanket announcement” and then coming back with a specific time/date.
On the other hand, I consider far better tools to exist than top-level posts for actual planning. Couldn’t posts, then, simply announce that a meetup will be occurring soon, then direct others off-site to a more suited tool for discussion and nailing down specifics?
Anyone who finds the first link will find the second and can track the resultant decision off-site.
On the other hand, yet again, I’m reminded that this is an issue with how feed readers track this stuff… so maybe my request is just silly. From the actual site’s perspective, there’s still only one post, so it simply contains more information once updated. It’s only Google Reader that treats it as two posts.
In the end, I’m inclined to say that you’ve convinced me to change my mind. I didn’t realize the purpose was for a two-part planning/announcement process and interpreted the evidence as signs of hasty composing of posts. I was wrong.
For the DC meetup posts, I’ve been doing non-dated/locationed posts in discussion, then will post on the front page with specifics.
I also think that is perfectly reasonable—use discussion for discussion.… then top-level for a “formal announcement.” On the other hand, some have mentioned that they don’t think everyone reads the discussion area and think they’ll get more meetup attendees via top-level posts.
This is another reason I point to other tools—those who want to receive updates about a meetup will, and only those for the group have to see such announcements, not everyone.
I really wonder who, stopping by LW for the first time, will need to see a top-level meetup post because they happen to live in that area and happen to have seen the LW site on the day where and announcement was near the top.
I think most people who want meetups in the first place would be willing to track such things elsewhere.