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  "id": 3663,
  "title": "Who send the invitation? The website or the event creator?",
  "url": "/competitions/event-recommendation-engine-challenge/discussion/3663",
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  "post_date": "2013-01-22T15:22:28.737Z",
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  "content": "<p>Who send the invitation? The website or the event creator?</p>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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    {
      "id": "19588",
      "postDate": "01/22/2013 15:22:28",
      "content": "<p>Who send the invitation? The website or the event creator?</p>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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      "id": "19598",
      "postDate": "01/22/2013 19:51:05",
      "content": "<p>I don't know for sure. But, in facebook events,&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>some events has &quot;invitee list&quot; locked up, by the event creator.</p>\r\n<p>but, in MOST of the cases, the &quot;invitee list&quot; is free to be added by people who get invited.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "19609",
      "postDate": "01/23/2013 00:36:13",
      "content": "<p>I agree that this is somewhat unclear. &nbsp;Here are some facts:</p>\r\n<p>-Users create the events</p>\r\n<p>-Total number of Responses (#yes &#43; #no &#43; #maybe) can be greater than the number invited and often much greater</p>\r\n<p>Now if the user creating an event selects who is invited (sends the invitations) then the event must be 'visible/searchable/shown to' users outside the invited list. Otherwise how can the number of responses be greater than the number invited.</p>\r\n<p>There are a few possiblities that i can think of:</p>\r\n<p>1. The users who are invited have the option to forward the event to other users, propogating it to a wider audience.</p>\r\n<p>2. Other users can search for events (if this was the case why would anyone search for an event and then respond no)</p>\r\n<p>3. The website chooses events somehow (based on location/demographic information) and shows them to users it thinks will be interested.</p>",
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      "id": "19659",
      "postDate": "01/24/2013 15:56:42",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Saeh;19609]</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">-Total number of Responses (#yes &#43; #no &#43; #maybe) can be greater than the number invited and often much greater</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">[/quote]</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">My understanding was that the &quot;invited&quot; response is from users who did not respond to the invitation (with a yes/maybe/no response).</span></p>",
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      "id": "19697",
      "postDate": "01/25/2013 21:55:52",
      "content": "<p>Playsted is correct. </p>\r\n<p>Users get invited and start in the #invited state. Then, if they reply with #yes, #no, or #maybe, they are removed from the #invited state.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>If they never reply, they remain in the #invited state.</p>\r\n<p>Users always only have one state at any time. They are never both #invited and #yes, for example.</p>",
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      "id": "19744",
      "postDate": "01/27/2013 22:06:50",
      "content": "<p>[quote=events4you;19697]Users always only have one state at any time. They are never both #invited and #yes, for example.[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>It appears that, contrary to your explanation, some (users, events) are in multiple states. For example:</p>\r\n<p>- (user 3596333468, event 2863056708) is both #invited and #yes</p>\r\n<p>- (user 3691520059, event 4136632004) is both #yes and #no.</p>\r\n<p>I counted 386 such anomalous (user, event) pairs in on event_attendees.csv with sha1sum of 7d9abfbd897064550bd3c302fbc56fbc0f881296.</p>\r\n<p>How should it be interpreted?</p>",
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      "id": 19598,
      "author_name": "sigint",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/22/2013 19:51:05",
      "content": "<p>I don't know for sure. But, in facebook events,&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>some events has &quot;invitee list&quot; locked up, by the event creator.</p>\r\n<p>but, in MOST of the cases, the &quot;invitee list&quot; is free to be added by people who get invited.&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": 19609,
      "author_name": "thomasatkins",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/23/2013 00:36:13",
      "content": "<p>I agree that this is somewhat unclear. &nbsp;Here are some facts:</p>\r\n<p>-Users create the events</p>\r\n<p>-Total number of Responses (#yes &#43; #no &#43; #maybe) can be greater than the number invited and often much greater</p>\r\n<p>Now if the user creating an event selects who is invited (sends the invitations) then the event must be 'visible/searchable/shown to' users outside the invited list. Otherwise how can the number of responses be greater than the number invited.</p>\r\n<p>There are a few possiblities that i can think of:</p>\r\n<p>1. The users who are invited have the option to forward the event to other users, propogating it to a wider audience.</p>\r\n<p>2. Other users can search for events (if this was the case why would anyone search for an event and then respond no)</p>\r\n<p>3. The website chooses events somehow (based on location/demographic information) and shows them to users it thinks will be interested.</p>",
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      "id": 19659,
      "author_name": "playsted",
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      "post_date": "01/24/2013 15:56:42",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Saeh;19609]</p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">-Total number of Responses (#yes &#43; #no &#43; #maybe) can be greater than the number invited and often much greater</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">[/quote]</span></p>\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.4em\">My understanding was that the &quot;invited&quot; response is from users who did not respond to the invitation (with a yes/maybe/no response).</span></p>",
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      "id": 19697,
      "author_name": "events4you",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/25/2013 21:55:52",
      "content": "<p>Playsted is correct. </p>\r\n<p>Users get invited and start in the #invited state. Then, if they reply with #yes, #no, or #maybe, they are removed from the #invited state.\r\n</p>\r\n<p>If they never reply, they remain in the #invited state.</p>\r\n<p>Users always only have one state at any time. They are never both #invited and #yes, for example.</p>",
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      "id": 19744,
      "author_name": "esslor1",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "01/27/2013 22:06:50",
      "content": "<p>[quote=events4you;19697]Users always only have one state at any time. They are never both #invited and #yes, for example.[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>It appears that, contrary to your explanation, some (users, events) are in multiple states. For example:</p>\r\n<p>- (user 3596333468, event 2863056708) is both #invited and #yes</p>\r\n<p>- (user 3691520059, event 4136632004) is both #yes and #no.</p>\r\n<p>I counted 386 such anomalous (user, event) pairs in on event_attendees.csv with sha1sum of 7d9abfbd897064550bd3c302fbc56fbc0f881296.</p>\r\n<p>How should it be interpreted?</p>",
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