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by shalmanese 4012 days ago
This seems very similar to the now defunct grubwithus. I tried it in the early days and it was great but it suffered very noticeably from the Evaporative Cooling Effect [1]. It was very noticeable after about a year that the quality of people was much lower and I evaporatively cooled myself out as well. It's a huge challenge with models like this to avoid that problem.

1: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
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shakers 4011 days ago
Ah, so cool! This is actually a direct result from my experience with grubwithus (which I loved). The Evaporative Cooling Effect is definitely real and caused a lot of flaking from that service.

That experience is why we don't let you see/know in advance who's coming and why we handpick the groups.

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shalmanese 4011 days ago
Hand picking groups doesn't help if you can't compel people to go. People who have 2 or 3 bad experiences will just silently stop going and those people are most likely to be the ones who have the most to offer.
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