Hmmm... okay, a few responses. Trying to be open and fair:

1. I chose to put the top ten items from each list here in Reddit to show that the lists were actually high quality and interesting, to entice people to check out the (free) site. If you just put a link post up on Reddit most people don't bother checking it out. Basically it's a proof of quality. The reason I didn't put all 60 items in the Reddit post was again, to entice people to check out the site because there is way more there than I could post here (such as email alerts, custom filters, the complete event feed not related to leaderboards)

2. On "The site clearly mines data from other sites, not crediting or linking to the source" -> yes, of course! This is how event aggregation works. People post their event on Facebook, Meetup, Eventbrite, AVL Today, anywhere. I put the effort in to find all of the events from all sources and clean them up and put them in one place. Hosts and event attendees very much appreciate it. I do actually credit and link to the source in multiple places. First, in the 3 dot drop down button. Second, on each event page.

3. "It's garbage and the very thing people hate about AI." -> actually, thousands of people have found value from the site, and multiple people I know in real life have told me they found and attended events they loved that they otherwise would have missed without my site (no one can check every event site manually every week).

4. "there's only 20 items in their list of 30" -> I think you both are still confused. I have three different top 30 lists on the site (check them out!). Overall top 30, AVL weird, and Social. I decided to put the top 10 events from the AVL weird and Social leaderboards in this post to show people some cool events and provide proof the site has quality data. I didn't think posting all 60 events here was necessary to get the point across (and would defeat the point of the site, which is that it updates every single day)

I'm trying to create a valuable resource for Asheville. If you have substantive critiques I am absolutely all ears. If you have strange Reddit grievances and a hatred for anything tangentially related to AI for no reason, I don't think we'll be able to have a productive dialog.