Posting Guidelines
- Category Choice:
- Please take care to choose the appropriate posting category so that your posting
will be correctly categorized in the Daily Digest & in the Message Archives.
- If you post in the wrong category we may ask you to re-post.
- Content:
- You can post about (almost) anything
you would ask or tell your friends. That said....
- Postings should be of a practical, social, cultural, spiritual, personal, professional/business,
or entertainment-related nature.
- We do not accept:
- Politically oriented postings (for events, websites, blogs etc).
- Postings requesting money or sponsorship for charities/non-profits. However you
are welcome to post requests for specific, practical, non-financial help such as
volunteers, auction donation items, used office equipment.
- Network marketing/multi-level marketing recruiting or invitations to
‘Opportunity Meetings’.
- Rants (Positivity is one of our values!).
- Please include a brief introduction to yourself at the beginning of your
posting. (Even if you have done so in previous postings).
- Please combine postings of a similar nature, for example if you have a number
of items to sell.
- Please don’t combine postings about different issues – e.g. Offering a ThankQ
+ Seeking an Apartment.
- Remember to include all relevant information in the body for the email e.g.
pricing in a ‘For Sale’, contact details in a ‘Recommendation’ etc..
- Please not include links to postings on other sites (e.g. another classified
ad’ site). Instead, please include all relevant information and/or pictures in your
posting.
- If you expect to receive monetary or business-promotional benefit from a posting,
you should post in the ‘Offer Products or Services’ category (except for Events,
which you should simply post via the ‘Invite People to an Event’ Category, & Real
Estate Brokers who can post in the relevant Real Estate category).
- You are welcome to post a link to your Newsletter or Blog.
Please post such emails in 'Offered (Misc)' no more than Quarterly. You can also
include this information for other members to browse in your member profile. If
the purpose of your newsletter/blog is to promote your business or services, you
should post it in the 'Promote your Products or Services' category.
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- Attachments:
- You can attach/upload documents or images in various formats including: Word, PDF,
JPG, GIF, or PNG files to postings.
- They will be sent out as attachments to those who receive Individual Emails, and
will be ‘clickable-to’ from links in Daily Digest postings.
- Maximum size of 500KB per file - large files will take time to upload.
- Please do not upload photos containing cartoons, celebrities, nudity, or copyrighted
images.
- Include all relevant information in the body of your posting - don’t oblige
people to refer to your attachment for vital information – e.g. for event flyers.
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- Posting Frequency:
- Please wait 2 weeks between similar posts – e.g. Sub-letting your apartment.
- If you intend to send out an identical or similar post on a regular/on-going basis
e.g. offering a service, please wait at least one month between posts.
- Please only post a maximum of one ‘Seeking: Home For a Pet XXX’ per month.
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