provide finer-grained visibility control
Now, a meetup is either open, or closed. I need to have my event descriptions open, because that is how I attract speakers and new members. But I don't want the list of members visible, because this opens them up to recruiter spam. Can we please have finer-grained control over what is visible or not to non-members?
Chris Westin
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dee
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A good defense is the best offense... : Members may benefit from making their accounts throw-away, or non-sensitive in some other way. Additionally, consider Stop linking your Meetup personality to every FB and Twit account you have. Dont depend on walls within meetup to protect your privacy, when you are fast and loose with your privacy yourself.
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Anonymous
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I recently started a page that requires members to agree to confidentiality because I am a licensed counselor. Because of the sensitive nature of our topics, it is a closed group and members are discouraged from putting sensitive information in their profiles. If organizers like myself were allowed to publicly display events while not disclosing our member list, it could only benefit the popularity of Meetup groups. I do want others to see that we're an active group and join, but I DO NOT want to expose my clients in that manner. This is a very simple request that has been a thread since June 11, 2011. Exactly how many votes does it take????
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Privacy Buff
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What it comes down to I suppose is that 'meetup' is not concerned about missed membership opportunity nor ensuring safety to existing members. I do believe it is a matter of time before this platform becomes one of many predator tools used to stalk unexpecting victims if it is not already.
Me personally... I will not advertise on a global scale any portion of my schedule that leaves my children, home and myself vulnerable. I hope the privacy issue resolves before someone invites an avoidable horrific tragedy.
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Diane
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I totally agree that we need more fine-grained privacy options -- including, in particular, the ability to hide member lists while keeping meeting announcements public. I've been asking for this for years. Also, individuals members should be able to control whether their own listing on a member list is visible to everyone, or visible only to other members of the group, or visible only to organizers and assistant organizers.
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Roman
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As the first step: just add an option that hides the name of participants. As is done in Facebook's event page.
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Some_are_private some_are_not
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Agreed. Wow some of these request are so basic in nature I see no reason to not have included them in the settings in the first place. The fact of the matter is, they would be optional and that would not effect those organizers who don't choose to use them. Perhaps the meetup admin should start considering what's reasonable to be voted on to pass, vs what should be a basic common sense feature already included.
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Zhenya
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Privacy is indeed important. Nobody wants to be spammed.
However, I want the friend feature to be brought back.
If these things don't contradict one another, I'm in.
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Donna
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yes the organizer should be able to decide what is visible and what is not visible. like to not list address of events til a person agrees to attend
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Privacy Buff
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(thanks Sapsan!)
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Some_are_private some_are_not
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My heart goes out to the member named privacy Buff. That's just terrible, one of the issues with lack of privacy control I've attempted to address here as well.
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shs
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Also need to be able to hide the more information section just like the meetup location - because there is no point in not displaying the location when the description tells non-members exactly where it is (from links and other details provided etc). This is especially important for safety reasons so non-members don't crash a meetup and to prevent removed and banned members from showing up and causing problems.
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Privacy Buff
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this may or may not be a statement along the lines of what is being said... if not, my apologies.
Being in an industry where your name if often googled to seek professional credibility... I really didn't like seeing the groups I'm signed up for as a member being posted online for everyone to see.
My name is now FOREVER associated online as "ADULTS ABUSED AS CHILDREN"....
also... now that my name is associated with different groups... there is a fear to join as I have had problems in my line of work with stalkers to one degree or another.
I hate that I can not be a part of meetup and feel safe or have privacy... nor can my family
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Dorothy
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Agree!!!! I'd like to have my group open but set photos to private. Ideally, my calendar would be open with all the great Meetup titles for everyone to see, but only Members could open the individual event to view details and see the RSVPs.
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Alexandra
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+1
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Mike Daly
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+1 We need tools to keep the quality of the groups up.
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Anonymous
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Give the admins control! Open group, moderated join, obfuscation of member contact is a good to control signal to noise!
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Chris Westin
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I sent a message to my meetup's members, asking them to vote this up. After all, it is in their best interests. If you want this, I suggest you do the same.
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Jessica
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Please!!
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Shyam Mittur
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Yup, good feature to have.
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Tom Park
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+1. Spammers scraping member lists is a common problem for mail lists on Yahoo/Google Groups too. Meetup can learn from that. It makes sense to allow member lists to be hidden in any context, rather than an all-or-nothing switch.
