This maybe driven by your platform. The only way to "bookmark" an event you are interested in on meetup.com is to click "going", so people do that.
If there was an "interested" option, the flake rate would go way down.
If there was an "interested" option, the flake rate would go way down.
Just went and looked. Thanks. That will help me.
I'm still going to call that a UI disaster. Facebook puts "interested" and "going" in the same drop down. Can't miss it. If they did it the Facebook way, I believe a lot of the RSVP problem would go away. Now, people will still flake, of course. But we won't have the "save"ers.
Meetup uses an unlabeled, non-standard icon.
I strongly suspect that the vast majority of meetup users don't know it's there.
Just FYI: for running tech events in Silicon Valley, I expect about 50% flake rate. That's a few years ago, so there may be more bots now.