Subreddits besides Discussion

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At the request of MIRI people - want additional subreddits for meetups to live 
in, purgatory for dealing with trolls, etc.  It is possible for admins to 
create new subreddits, but properly adding decent support (proper karma 
tracking, site navigation, etc.) requires work.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by predicta...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2013 at 12:04

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To be done properly, going to need new banners - Is there someone who made the 
Discussion banner?

Estimate - 5.

Original comment by predicta...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2013 at 12:04

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Presumably we can create this capacity without immediately deciding which new 
subreddits we want to implement?

Original comment by lukep...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2013 at 12:04

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I'm not sure who made the Discussion banner. Matt might know.

Original comment by lukep...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2013 at 12:05

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I think we should start with a Meetups subreddit for meetups but not give it 
it's own nav bar item, because we've already got the /meetups page. Then 
meetups can be posted there instead of cluttering up Discussion. Eliezer, would 
you like to confirm this specific change?

Original comment by lukep...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2013 at 10:15

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This sounds like a reasonable start - eventually we may want more subreddits 
than that.

Original comment by yudkow...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2013 at 12:06

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Should the meetups subreddit be public (anyone can post), restricted (anyone 
can view but contributors can submit) or private?

I guess what I'm asking is: is there currently an approved list of users 
allowed to create meetups or can anyone start one?

Original comment by jack.tri...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2013 at 2:39

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Anyone can create a meet up as long as they meet this criteria:

c.user_is_loggedin and c.user.safe_karma >= g.discussion_karma_to_post):

Original comment by wjmo...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2013 at 3:27

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We're nearly ready to deploy a change that puts meetups into their own 
subreddit but there are a couple of final wrinkles:

1. Doing this will make past meetups inaccessible (they are currently posted to 
Discussion). I don't believe they're often accessed but sometimes people want 
to go back and look up addresses or something.
2. /r/meetups is accessible if you put it into the location bar anyway.

Therefore:

I think we need a link to /r/meetups, and I propose we put it in the bar at the 
top alongside Main and Discussion (see attached).

I'll adjust /r/meetups so the only way to post is through the "add new meetup" 
button.

Thoughts/objections/alternatives?

Original comment by jack.tri...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2014 at 3:17

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Not sure about 1, but I don't think that losing access to old meetups is too 
much of a problem - they'll still be in Discussion if someone wants to look at 
them.

2. /r/meetups should be private, so no one can see it.  If it is private anyone 
who didn't create it/get added by the creator (or probably a global mod) will 
just see a page not found error.  I assume when you typed in the address, you 
were signed in as the user used to create the subreddit?  The whole point is 
that /r/meetups is invisible and users only see meetups through /meetups.

Original comment by predicta...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2014 at 12:36

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It's not just old meetups that I'm worried about losing, but also meetups that 
were created before this change is deployed? Will they still show on the map 
and be otherwise accessible?

You're right about accessing the subreddit as the creating user.

I've spoken to a guy here who used to coordinate the local meetups and he found 
it more than occasionally useful to be able to go back and find contact details 
and such from previous meetups.

Original comment by jack.tri...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2014 at 12:47

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What is the distinction between an old meetup and one created before this 
change?

Original comment by predicta...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2014 at 12:48

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I've been calling a meetup that's been scheduled and has happened before this 
code change an "old meetup".

A meetup created before this change is one that's been created but scheduled 
for some time in the future, so when the code is deployed, the meetup still 
hasn't happened yet.

Original comment by jack.tri...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2014 at 12:50

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Bumping this up to high priority, based on conversations I've had with Luke. 
MIRI is interested in having this happen sooner than other things in the queue.

Original comment by nick...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2014 at 8:04

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• Removed labels: Milestone-Future, Priority-Medium

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Meetups are now in /r/meetups, but are still accessible through the existing 
site features. Some users are concerned that removing them from /r/discussion 
will reduce attendance: 
http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6r/open_thread_may_5_11_2014/aw9l

Original comment by jack.tri...@gmail.com on 13 May 2014 at 12:11

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I think most of that will be fixed when we get the dashboard up.

Original comment by predicta...@gmail.com on 13 May 2014 at 12:54