I went to this meetup once in SD last school year, it was a huge eye-opener for me when I was on the fence on the idea of startups.

Now I'm currently in Silicon Valley with my brother cranking hardcore to roll out an app before fall quarter starts.

If you've never been to a hacker news meetup before, just go!

glad you enjoyed it; if you were there last year I probably met you then. I'm in Silicon Valley too, hit me up if you happen to be near Hacker Dojo!

OK, so, once again the SD meetup rockets to the front page of HN, then accrues no further votes. Not surprising, clearly they are coordinating their voting.

This brings to light the issue that other meetups (I run the LA one) don't put the effort into coordinating votes like SD does. I'm not sure what the solution here is, but I don't like the status quo.

If "coordinating" == "gaming", then no, SDHN is not coordinating voting. Thanks for your concern.

good point, or maybe we just read HN more?