| I had a Meetup.com account, and set up a small group. It was a local tech interest meetup. I was in at the lower level. I think it was $50 (long time ago), and there was a limit to the number of users. After a couple of legit users joined, there was a sudden explosion of "mystery users," that I couldn't tell if they were real or not. I strongly suspect they were not, as they never responded to any questions, and never showed up, as well as their other groups were ... weird ... no connection to the local tech scene. They crowded the group, so new members would only be admitted if I went up to the next (quite expensive) tier. The whole thing fizzled, and I abandoned the group. As I believe that there were no more than about five "real" members of the group, I don't think anyone was in danger. No one took it over, and the group died (as did my desire to have anything to do with Meetup.com). I am not going to speculate in any legally-vulnerable manner, but I was certainly not one to benefit from a bunch of inactive spam accounts... |
Actually it ended up being a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. I won't have anything to do with meetup.com anymore after seeing it from the other side.