Cities having a first-time meetup, or where a new meetup is being started by a new organizer after a hiatus, should have additional info about that meetup and its organizer appearing in a prominent, top-of-post position in the roundup post.
This is a sensible policy for first-time recurring meetups, but first-time meetups should be as low activation energy as possible: we want people to start off with “I’m going to go to Coffeeshop X and read Thinking, Fast and Slow from time A to time B; if any other LW fans are in city Y, come and we’ll meet up!”, rather than posting info about themselves (and then wondering if their info influenced the lack of interest).
I like this change, with one small change:
This is a sensible policy for first-time recurring meetups, but first-time meetups should be as low activation energy as possible: we want people to start off with “I’m going to go to Coffeeshop X and read Thinking, Fast and Slow from time A to time B; if any other LW fans are in city Y, come and we’ll meet up!”, rather than posting info about themselves (and then wondering if their info influenced the lack of interest).