[dougmwne]

This sounds like mostly an issue of bad user communication and expectations setting. Most meetups are communities, not someone's personal fiefdom or mailing list. If the organizer disappears, the community should be empowered to keep the group running. But meetups could have been created for all kinds of reasons and it would be pretty horrifying to be able to purchase Dave's family BDSM group.

[lupire]

It's not a miscommunication, it's a crass monetization.

At the very least, Meetup should require existing members to opt-in to the transfer.

[vorpalhex]

When my meetup was active, we would frequently have "promoters" show. Often times these were for corporate-y events. Needless to say their attempts to indice a bunch of drunk socializing nerds to attend some corpo BS went poorly.

I can't imagine those slimey promoters being allowed to spam that meetup group now.