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If you're "kicking people out of the group" and telling people not to "RSVP" unless they're 100% committed, then I feel like you're more effectively making peop

If you're "kicking people out of the group" and telling people not to "RSVP" unless they're 100% committed, then I feel like you're more effectively making people disinterested in your group than you are solving your attendance estimation problem. If your group is so large that you have a waitlist, I'd be willing to bet there's a consistent statistic of RVSP vs Attendance that you could rely on. Maybe check records of your past events and see if there's much fluctuation?

monksy 10y ago
You would be surprised on the amount of people who sign up for a meetup group and never attend a single meetup.
- ghaff 10y ago
  Not the sort of meetups people are talking about here, but I'm on a bunch of lists and a number of meetup groups where I have never or only rarely attended an event.
  - monksy 10y ago
    I run a social group that has about 3.6k+ people on it. We have about 200-300 active people at any given time. Most of the people who drop out of the group have 0 RSVP Yeses, and 0 RSVP Nos. We do a lot to get attendance up and to create events that people want to attend.
aaronchall 10y ago
Our group was used to about a 66% showup rate, with a top end of probably about 80%. Showup rates started declining, probably due to people thinking it didn't matter if they didn't make it, and not canceling their "Yes". We started discussing the problem when we had a 40% showup with a large waitlist. We considered tracking no-shows for suspension, but before we even started that, I started mentioning the fact that we were thinking about the problem to members, and making statements on meetup pages about us looking at no-shows. We didn't have to actually change policy, but thanks to some simple communication, we got showup rates back to their average 66%. As a best practice, we should probably continue to mention it from time to time to ensure we don't get back to those kinds of lows.

monksy 10y ago

You would be surprised on the amount of people who sign up for a meetup group and never attend a single meetup.

ghaff 10y ago
Not the sort of meetups people are talking about here, but I'm on a bunch of lists and a number of meetup groups where I have never or only rarely attended an event.
- monksy 10y ago
  I run a social group that has about 3.6k+ people on it. We have about 200-300 active people at any given time. Most of the people who drop out of the group have 0 RSVP Yeses, and 0 RSVP Nos. We do a lot to get attendance up and to create events that people want to attend.

aaronchall 10y ago

Our group was used to about a 66% showup rate, with a top end of probably about 80%. Showup rates started declining, probably due to people thinking it didn't matter if they didn't make it, and not canceling their "Yes". We started discussing the problem when we had a 40% showup with a large waitlist. We considered tracking no-shows for suspension, but before we even started that, I started mentioning the fact that we were thinking about the problem to members, and making statements on meetup pages about us looking at no-shows. We didn't have to actually change policy, but thanks to some simple communication, we got showup rates back to their average 66%. As a best practice, we should probably continue to mention it from time to time to ensure we don't get back to those kinds of lows.