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both. but the site's past its prime regarding the former, it seems

Gah, the mincer didn't show up. It's understandable, I think he moved across town yesterday.

See it all depends on how active the local SGs are.
Someone said they were coming in to town for the olympics and wanted to meet up for beers. Very few replies came.
One of the SGs makes a new post saying we should all meet up, conveniently on one of the days that this guy was coming over and BOOM! We had like 15 people.
It probably takes a few events like that for people to get to know each other, then you can probably consider them friends and possibly get them to do things without an SG showing up.
I've been trying for months to get people to come out to this pub that has 25 beers on tap.
If 25, premium, craft brewed beers can't get people out, you NEED an SG.

Yeah, and graveyards were all because of the olympics. I've discovered the time between 11:00pm and 8:00am on a weeknight is depressingly lonely.
Luckily loneliness is like crack to an uninspired artist like me. I've been working on soo many projects, it's awesome.