A friend of mine attended last year. He described it as "the most socially awkward people you've ever met telling you how to be less socially awkward".
Also, I don't think a regular LW meetup would be described as involving "teaching people to be less socially awkward".
I've followed LessWrong, and I hadn't heard anything, until the GP, about it giving off such an aura of "the blind leading the blind".
You can see all of the feedback to the survey question asking what about the camp could be improved here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/b98/minicamps_on_rationality_and_awe...