Friendly reminder for @Chris_R @Ingo @schmulschubiak @amber @mbyr @quermitdenker @friek @merci @Paule @hnms that you are entitled to have any of your upcoming Fairphone meetups pinned 24 hours prior. Do not hesitate to remind any us who commented before in this topic or anyone else with superpowers should we forget to do so (if you cannot do it yourself anyway).
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Why is this only 24 hours? Is it really worth to have a local meetup topic to be pinned only on the same day but not lets say for a week, as @Friek has already suggested a few messages before this one?
With the large number of meetups we sometimes have it wouldn’t be possible (3 global pins is max).
Also I believe the main reason for pinning on the day of the meetup is not to promote it so more people will come, but so the people who want to come can quickly check the forum e.g if they are on the way to the forum meetup and forgot where it is exactly.
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I think we should use pins economically (i.e. not too frequently). Otherwise forum users would easily get used to permanently see them and not really notice new pins anymore.
Meetup hosts can easily bring their meetup posts back to the top of the forum every now and then on their own (and I recommend that they do so).
I would stick to the 24 hour time span. A final reminder is the main impact the pin should give in my eyes.
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I often find myself thinking:
Yeah, where is this beautiful place?
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@urs_lesse: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility 
! Do you mind to pin the Munich event?
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Maybe I’m stupid or blind, but I don’t see how to globally pin or unpin a topic.
Click the wrench:
Pin/Unpin topic:
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Ah, and they get automatically unpinned if a duration was given? I was looking to unpin the HH topic. But it seems it was done automatically. Confusion resolved 
Yes, you always have to specify a time for the unpin.
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The pin can be fine tuned with regard to expiration now – so I set the expiration of the pin for tomorrow’s Stuttgart meetup to 90 minutes after its beginning.
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Bringing this back into attention of everyone who has “wrench” abilities. With the slight reduction of activity from our vigorous Viennese vanguard, other moderators and those with the ability please help making sure upcoming meetups get that little final push they deserve 
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How about extending it to 48h hours. Our Zurich meetup hopefully attracts people outside Zürich. As many are commuting here, 24 h might of too much short notice.
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Frankly if we change it, I think we should open the discussion more in general again.
I am no longer convinced that we should limit the pin to a brief period right before an event. I actually think it would make indeed sense to give an event some very early attention (i.e. a couple of days) right after it is originally announced.
However, we would need a small set of really clear rules as to how to qualify for this early advertising pin.
My suggestion: This original announcement should fulfill at least two requirements to qualify for an early (maybe one week-)pin: The exact date and the exact venue must both already be settled by then. And well, it should be announced well in time before the event (three or more weeks), so it won’t just be pinned for two weeks in a row. This way, we make sure that the final pin 24 or 48 hours before the event actually gets noticed anew.
This wouldn’t exactly automate the procedure. What I have in mind is a script that pins events automatically without human interaction (otherwise you would still have to pin every event individually).
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