Hi all! :)
I have an idea to begin posting community/sporting events going on for the communities c/perth and c/environment.
I’ve developed some lists of events across the year for each, the one below is the one for c/perth so far.
Due to the nature of an ‘event’ there’re often commercial aspects, or they are outright commercial enterprises running these things. This means my idea to start posting about these events runs up hard against rule 4, no ads/spamming.
I’m looking for a ruling/guidance on how to choose an event to not be in contravention of this rule? Or even whether i need to walk away from this idea completely due to the grey area this imight be.
This post mainly pertains to the admins, but i’m really interested to know what others think, also if anybody has any ideas of events i’ve not thought about. @[email protected] @[email protected]
Here is the list i have so far for c/perth as an example of the events i’m thinking about.
If people have ideas for other WA events i’m definitely looking for more, i’d preferably like to develop an initial list of around 50.
- The Western derby (AFL)
- Avon descent
- Port to Pub
- HBF run for a reason
- City to surf
- Telethon
- Rottnest swim
- Camel cup (kal)
- Targa west
- Possible ascot spring carnival
- Astrofest
- ECU engineering school gokarts
- Margaret river pro surfing
- City Xmas lights trail, 22nd Nov, https://visitperth.com/events/rio-tinto-christmas-lights-trail
- Xmas light trails in the burbs
- Garage sale trail
- Record store day (maybe, could be considered advertising/promotion)
- Sculptures by the Sea
- Weekend post about which community markets are on that weekend inPerth.
- WAM WA music awards
- Northam Indy 500
- Canarvon Windfest day
My reason for thinking about this, is since becoming involved with Aussie Zone and searching for good sources for posts i’ve found quite a few sites that purport to be about promoting local “events” but are little more than paid tourism/hospitality event promotion sites. The most acceptable site like this i’ve found is probably ‘Perth is Ok’ who actually do put up the odd interesting article in between what look like paid placements. So i’s thinking a useful update service of real community events could be helpful for people.
Cheers everyone in advance for your input on this :)
I know this has been answered (and officially), but I ask myself 2 questions when it comes to things that can be spammy:
- Am I being paid for this, by the organisers of the event, or do I even have a horse in the race? If yes: don’t post (or ask for prior permission and include a short blurb about how I’m involved and what I stand to gain
- is this something I think somebody else would actually find benefit in or enjoy? If no: should I post it for historical purposes? If no: why should I post it?
I say go for it, though! I’d probably either limit to 1 event post a week (maybe 3 days), or put them all into a mega thread. Maybe a weekly mega thread. You’ll have my upvote either way!
Thanks Baku! I’s originally aiming for one event post a week, i think i’ll stick to the more personally interesting posts. Thwt’ll still be quite a few, but other people will have to do things like AFL and such :) If they want it.
I’d thought things like weekend markets arpund the State could go in a weekly thread like you suggest
If you’re posting as an uninvolved third party about an event you’re interested in, it’s not an ad.
As for spam, if you post a ridiculous volume about such events it could be construed as spamming. So long as you’re manually posting this shouldn’t an issue.
Basically, don’t be trying to sell anything or abusing the AZ site.
Ok, cheers for the guidance. I’ll carry on with the idea, but might tone it down a bit.
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I’m obviously not the guy in charge, but I think anyone posting about an event in their community that they think will be interesting to others in the community could never qualify as spam. If you posted the same event multiple times in close succession, that might change it, or if you had a commercial interest in it, but to me the key thing with spam is repetitiveness, and with advertising it’s having a commercial interest.
Yeah, i think i needed yours and Lodion’s responses to remind me to keep it to events i actually find interesting. Cheers.
Sorry folks someone else is gona have to post about the Western Derby ;)
