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Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by gpm »

z3ugma wrote: post #79
Animats wrote: post #78

(This is going to upset some people.) A successful escort who is into statistical data analysis and market research talks about the details of organizing an orgy.[1] Aella's thing is to ask questions that lead to "what do women really want", and go from there to design events. She has about 800,000 raw survey responses, so there's enough data to look for patterns. The answers will upset some people. The conventional…

“ This post is for paid subscribers “

I think the intent is you watch the 20 minute conference talk at the top, not read the paywalled post.

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by [deleted] »

Animats wrote: post #78

(This is going to upset some people.) A successful escort who is into statistical data analysis and market research talks about the details of organizing an orgy.[1] Aella's thing is to ask questions that lead to "what do women really want", and go from there to design events. She has about 800,000 raw survey responses, so there's enough data to look for patterns. The answers will upset some people. The conventional…

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Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by knuppar »

Being brutally honest, I wouldn't be too keen to attend a party from someone that writes up about their 21 party facts lol. This sounds more like a meticulous plan to maximize human socialization than an actually just fun party :)

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by nixpulvis »

What do you do if you only have like two friend (who don't know each other) these days, and you want to get them to invite their friends... I'm planning a thing for the 8th and super worried it's going to be like 4 of us and we're going to hate it.

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by GrifMD »

nixpulvis wrote: post #84

What do you do if you only have like two friend (who don't know each other) these days, and you want to get them to invite their friends... I'm planning a thing for the 8th and super worried it's going to be like 4 of us and we're going to hate it.

You've gotta change it from "you're throwing a party" to "we're throwing party".

Or just ask them to invite some people man, don't stress.

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by vishnugupta »

buildsjets wrote: post #7

I sure miss the kind of parties where they have to get an emergency court order to cut power the building at 3am. I learned everything I need to know about throwing parties from Dave Barry. If you throw a party, the worst thing that you can do would be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw another party next year. What…

Haha this seems to be a great success of a party then!

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/police-...

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by Animats »

gpm wrote: post #81
z3ugma wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ This post is for paid subscribers “

I think the intent is you watch the 20 minute conference talk at the top, not read the paywalled post.

Right. You can watch the video, which is better than most YouTube videos, for free.

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by nicd »

kelseydh wrote: post #47
nicbou wrote: post #15

I prefer to invite people individually, and create a group chat with those who confirmed. Nothing is more demoralising than 24 hours of people saying they won’t come, in the group chat, right before the event. My flake rate is close to zero, mostly because people personally told me they’ll join. It doesn’t hurt to get the group chat hyped up on the day of the event. The activity is enough to get people excited. I als…

I miss the days when Facebook events worked well for getting people to attend a party. Now, nobody is on Facebook so those event invitations get missed and you need to hustle much harder with individual chat messages to get people to attend.

Partiful works well?

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by Cheer2171 »

sodality2 wrote: post #67
0_____0 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have a page that claims they don't sell user data. Not that this makes me trust them. https://help.partiful.com/hc/en-us/articles/26526557943067-H...

Also from their (presumably more binding) privacy policy: > We don’t sell your personal data as a source of revenue, unlike most apps -- we make money by selling drinks & snacks for your event via our Group Order feature

> We don’t sell your personal data as a source of revenue

What a curiously specific phrase. So if they traded your data to Palantir in exchange for hosting or services, this would still be allowed. The fact that they have another revenue stream says nothing about your data privacy. Or if Thiel has a backdoor to snoop on Silicon Valley's most intimate social networking data.

Re: Facts about throwing good parties

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Post by bsenftner »

rossdavidh wrote: post #2

"21) The biggest problem at many parties is an endless escalation of volume. If you know how to fix this, let me know." Only way I know is to have a porch, garage, or other connected-but-not-the-same-space open for people to spill into.

Spaces, as in have multiple locations for smaller groups to enjoy the scene. There is a real reason that some of the better night clubs are not a single spralling space, but a multi-floor building with each floor sub sectioned into dozens of little back to back living room like couch setups. Intimacy works.
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