Timely, I signed up for Meetup ages ago and only recently started getting any use out of it. A few things: #25 - Please don't even suggest that a site shouldn

Timely, I signed up for Meetup ages ago and only recently started getting any use out of it. A few things: #25 - Please don't even suggest that a site shouldn't validate email addresses immediately. Validation isn't just about keeping spammers off the site. It's also about not spamming the poor folks with common names from the consistently amazing number of people who don't know their own email address. I've witnessed a constant deluge of everything from bank statements to party invites from sites that don't validate the addresses their users provide. #26 - I'd be really surprised if "hour" was any sort of admission about things on the meetup end. More likely it's a wise acknowledgement of the reality of user email beyond the large, well-functioning services like GMail. If you say a "few minutes" you'll have people in a vicious circle of hitting resend then clicking on the now useless (expired) confirmations as they trickle through their half-assed Exchange system or budget spam filter. #30 - This caught me up when I signed up for meetup. It asks for a "bio", but it's used more like a title or tagline as 100 characters or so accompany your avatar on membership/attending pages.