Hello @JustSomeBloke, thank you for looking out for community members 
We know that some people would like to connect with others locally, so we try to give advice on how to go about this as safely as possible. You are right that the best way to protect your privacy is to remain anonymous, so I would just like to share a little reminder about protecting your privacy and meeting offline.
The reason we encourage people to keep communications within the community is because we have staff and moderators looking after the space here which helps it stay a safe and supportive platform. When this is taken offline outside of the community, we can no longer keep you and our members safe.
Our terms and conditions ask you not to publish your contact details or identifying information on our site to protect your own privacy and security. So this would include never posting your name or location on a publicly viewable thread.
If you’d like to contact members more privately, you can send them a private message through the site. For more information on how to use private messages, please see our help section.
If you’d like to start a private group chat with other members who’d like to meet up in Wiltshire, for example, you are able to send a private message to multiple users, like this:
You can also add people into the private chat after you’ve sent the first message by clicking the plus button:
I hope this is helpful - take care,
Seaneen