When setting up a meetup, have the option of choosing the members that you wish to invite from the list and not show the meetup to the rest
When setting up a meetup, have the option of choosing the members that you wish to invite from the list and not show the meetup to the rest
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We currently do not have any plans to do this.
14 comments
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Vincent
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I love this idea. Mainly because I find the same people tend to be quick on the draw and respond first to just about every event before even checking if they can actually attend or not. It would be nice to give those people who can't respond quickly a chance to respond before opening it up to everyone else. Otherwise the events have the same people every time and many people never get a chance to get out and meet the group. Give them a shot to attend as well.
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JEM
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You can already have it so it creates a custom mailing list, so I see this feature as somewhat redundant.
In any case, I don't think that this is a good feature, as it rather changes the point of Meetups. In my opinion, if you want to pick and choose certain members to see your event, have it outside of the Meetup group.
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Karl Kaufmann
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To add to other comments--having special lists for events does go against the founding principles of Meetup. If people are quite annoying, and dealing directly with them doesn't help, perhaps it's high time to boot them from the group...
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JohnH
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I think this is a good idea I would like to be able to have events/meetings just for Event Organisers and above. To do this I have to arrange it via E-Mail or FaceSpam . Then I have to make sure no one puts on an event at this time and date.
My group has grown and I now need to have some type of management committee, however bizzarely I can't do this within meetup. -
Gwen
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It does, but if you manage a smaller group within the larger group, it can make it easier...
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Philip StClair
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Speak to the members. Limit the numbers in the event. Dont announce the event initially. Manually insert the people you want to attend and then close RSVP's, not allowing new members to attend. Simple. But this kind of goes against the entire principle of an open community. :)
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loopback
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Don't get me wrong here, I'm not exactly in love with Meetup right now with the way they have been handling suggestions. However, this suggestion is COMPLETELY against what meetup is all about. If you want the ability to hold private, invite-only events, you have a few options. 1) create another group, mark it as private, and invite only your friends. 2) go somewhere else.
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Alex - Life Underwater
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Agree with this totally! I entered this same wish recently - here it is: "We would like to be able to create Meetup announcement lists – similar to mailing lists (they could even be the same – just allow us to announce a meetup only to a specific list at first and then to everyone else later). The idea is that we would like to give sustaining members (people who have paid voluntary dues) advanced notice of meetups to allow them first chance to RSVP."
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sara
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This idea keeps getting cut by the developers, but I think it's very valuable to some members. We're starting to move over to Facebook because it does allow people to set up private events. Why do we want to do that? Why do I think it's not discriminatory?
We're a gaming group approaching 900 members. We try to offer 2 thing: First public events where people can come out and meet other people for games. These are usually demo games and are always well attended. No problem there. The second thing, which is also the original intent of the group, is to give our members the space to post events for their ongoing RPG games. Which are set groups of usually 5-6 people that are playing anywhere from once a week to once a month. The comments features and calendar features of meetup are friendlier, and send reminders without the game organizer needing to remember to do this manually through the system.
The #1 complaint we get is "why do I have to see all these campaigns that are full, can't you just edit them out of the calendar, I don't want to get these notices".
And so, we find ourselves increasingly on Facebook because meetup developers don't see that this is incredibly useful for some groups. It's not about exclusion it's about not spamming 895 people for a 5 person event that is full when it's posted.
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Greg C
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You actually already can do that if you choose. In your tools menu under email attendees, you can create a custom list. I've utilized this feature when I want to send an invitation to my winter league members, for example.
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Steven C
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I understand what you're trying to do, but you're not thinking about the big picture. I run a group with almost 2000 people and one with 720. There is no way in H*LL I could pick which people to show the invite to (especially not with the poor assortment of pickers available).
Alternatively, I would LOVE it if I could assign some people to the special case of "TROLL" so that they would think they were a member of the group, see events that are allowed to be seen by "TROLLS" but nobody would see any post or comment they make - and they would not see any post or comment made by anyone else (including other trolls). This would make it possible to deal with the troublemakers, the chronic no-showers, and the unpleasant people in a way that doesn't antagonize them.
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Janelle
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i dont know why you would want to exclude some people but i dont htink its very nice. hopefully you're not the person who runs one of the groups im in!
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Rich
commented
May be discriminatory in a bad way. A private message for personal and private events should be utilized instead.
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Kent Potter
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Kind of defeats the purpose of Meetup groups
