Users advocate for aggressive anti-commercial moderation to prevent platform decay
5Sep 21 2:18 AM · 3d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 8
Commenters argued that event platforms degrade when commercial actors flood them with low-effort, profit-seeking events, and called for strong anti-spam policies. One noted that Meetup became a platform for extractive events.
“I think meetup apps need to be aggressively anti-commercial. Meetup became a crappy stew of for-profit low effort AI flyer events designed to harvest money from people.”
I think meetup apps need to be aggressively anti-commercial. Meetup became a crappy stew of for-profit low effort AI flyer events designed to harvest money from people. I used an app called Nomadtable for a while but there too I caught organisers just trying to make money off of travelers. I'm also told women constantly get unwanted sexual…
The Activities idea is interesting. How do you handle the problem of people joining an activity and then not showing up? Do you have any reputation or attendance mechanism planned?