Is there any requirement about pimping besides getting the hotel/prom info? Not that that doesn't require effort, I'm just wondering. Personally, I can make a decision about whether X city is of interest to me on my own.

I understand why someone might want to sell it and get more votes, but I feel like people have been dissuaded from pimping at all because of a perceived need to be on the ground, have an intimate knowledge of a place, or write up 50 million things.

Personally, I never need to be pimped to... if I can find an affordable ticket and get the weekend off I'll go, and it doesn't matter to me whether it's an awesome hotel in a glittery city teeming with entertainment or a Holiday Inn in Evanston; if there are Buffistas there and I can swing a ticket, that's all I need. The F2Fs I've missed have always been solely about rotten timing or poverty, never ever ever because the pimper failed to make the city insufficiently enticing.

I feel like people have been dissuaded from pimping at all because of a perceived need to be on the ground, have an intimate knowledge of a place, or write up 50 million things.

I can see that. However, I would say that the pimper/organizer should live in or have intimate knowledge of the city, but as long as there are Buffistas willing to assist, it's okay. Of course, that depends on the ultimate location, though. I would have been able to assist had the last F2F been in Baltimore, but wasn't able to help in RI.

However, I would say that the pimper/organizer should live in or have intimate knowledge of the city

Why?

Because when they don't the F2F sometimes doesn't go as well. The pimper doesn't know that although both hotels claim to be close to public transport, hotel A is a better transit line; or gets caught up in the newness of the city and isn't available; or where the best place to get stuff for the hospitality suite is (or even getting stuff for the suite); etc. There have been exceptions, of course, but history has shown that it goes more smoothly when the pimper is familiar with the city.

I would say if the pimper doesn't take responsibility for planning than someone else needs to at least sort of head up the committee so that we actually have hotels reserved and a prom set up, etc, etc.

I guess what I mean is that pimper does not have be the person responsible for organizing the affair, but there probably should be someone.

Hm, I suppose that the pimper and the organizer don't have to be the same person, but what if someone pimps, but no one wants to organize?

Then I pimp Albuquerque. I have a basic knowledge of the city as far as hotels and suchlike.

YAY ABQ! That (or Santa Fe) would be a really fun F2F, but I definitely would consider that West.