I think its a reasonable solution to people not wanting to make an account or also the occasional anonymous post. I have used it once or twice to make separate comments.
But I should add that you can see a list of your nearest meetups if you set your location on your own account.
Edit: holy hell the person who posted all the OT comments here is really annoying and should make an account and stop link-dropping. If the account is being abused that bad we should shut it down and I would change my vote in the poll.
From the upvote to downvote ratio it looks like more members think the posts by Username in the open thread are worthwhile—at the time of writing they are mostly among the higher top-level comments on this week’s open thread, and several have sparked at least a bit of subsequent discussion in the form of follow up comments.
True, they’re only links (with quoted text) but this doesn’t particularly strike me as abuse of the Username account.
I think its a reasonable solution to people not wanting to make an account or also the occasional anonymous post. I have used it once or twice to make separate comments.
But I should add that you can see a list of your nearest meetups if you set your location on your own account.
Edit: holy hell the person who posted all the OT comments here is really annoying and should make an account and stop link-dropping. If the account is being abused that bad we should shut it down and I would change my vote in the poll.
From the upvote to downvote ratio it looks like more members think the posts by Username in the open thread are worthwhile—at the time of writing they are mostly among the higher top-level comments on this week’s open thread, and several have sparked at least a bit of subsequent discussion in the form of follow up comments.
True, they’re only links (with quoted text) but this doesn’t particularly strike me as abuse of the Username account.
I am suspicious of the link-drop attitude to posting anywhere. Even if it looks to have value added this time.