"Meeting other members is one of a few metrics one can use to "vet" members. What we don't want is a climate where people start looking askance at every guy who hasn't met 10 different members.
Furthermore, without naming names, I'll add that I'm aware of more than one member who has met select others but chooses not to broadcast it publicly for a variety of privacy reasons."
For a meetup I organized recently, a couple guys who asked to join were close to or entirely non-entities on the forum and among those who people it. I didn't give them the meetup details. If someone actually were a rat or something, it's safer to expose them to one person initially, rather than a dozen at once.
Furthermore, without naming names, I'll add that I'm aware of more than one member who has met select others but chooses not to broadcast it publicly for a variety of privacy reasons."
For a meetup I organized recently, a couple guys who asked to join were close to or entirely non-entities on the forum and among those who people it. I didn't give them the meetup details. If someone actually were a rat or something, it's safer to expose them to one person initially, rather than a dozen at once.