Repeated Postings
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Repeated Postings
In the interest of keeping the newsletters useful and easy to read, and free of
advertising, we ask that subscribers not repeatedly post information about the same
business, organization, school, or institution. This includes local businesses
and services as well as
childcare and school openings, household services,
classes and tutoring, events, groups, therapy and medical services, and the like.
Repeated postings make the newsletters too long and annoying, and increase
work for the volunteers.
If you didn't
receive the response you were expecting from your first posting, it is best
to explore other avenues rather than repeating your post to the same audience.
The policy about repeat postings:
- One posting per newsletter about the same business,
service, organization, or institution
- A maximum of 3 postings in 3 months about the same business, service, organization, or institution
- See below for exceptions for Schools, Preschools & Camps and
Marketplace
Please also see the advertising policy for more information
about promotional postings.
Sorry, but we cannot automatically repeat your posting for you. You will
need to post again if you want it to appear again. However, please read
the policy above about Repeated Postings before
you post again. There is a limit on repeated postings in order to keep
the newsletters interesting and readable for subscribers.
Postings about the same event, class or group are limited to 3 postings in
3 months. Only one posting per newsletter will be accepted about the same business,
service, organization, or institution. For more information about the Announcements newsletter,
see About the Announcements newsletter.
Promotional postings from daycares and other businesses
must follow the 3-in-3-months rule. For all
other postings,
please do not post the same message more than twice in one month.
If you have not gotten a good response to your posting, try some
of the suggestions on the Posting Tips
page.
(Recommendations, Advice, House & Garden, Schools, and Parents of Teens)
- One "wanted" posting per newsletter per subscriber, please.
We are currently receiving hundreds of new questions each week, and
we want to give everyone a chance to have their question appear in as short
a list of questions as possible. Questions receive more and
better responses when there is a shorter list of questions.
- Please do not post the same question again in a subsequent newsletter
to see if you can get better responses the second time.
If your first request received an unsatisfactory response, it is
unlikely that a second request will get improved responses.
The questions are going out to the same audience, and m ost likely,
the people who can and want to respond, have already responded.
- We cannot accept "follow-up" questions from the subscriber who posted
the original question. Again, we want to give everyone a chance to have their
question appear in as short a list as possible.
- We can't accept requests for reviews of things that have been asked about recently
and that are archived to the website. If you'd like to see previous
responses, and they have not been archived yet,
please send us an email and tell us the topic you want archived.
- You may respond to as many questions as you like, but please
don't post the same text to multiple questions. For example,
please do not recommend your homeopathy business to everyone who
has asked a medical question in the Recommendations newsletter.
Marketplace should not be used as a way to make extra money. It is
intended as a convenient way for BPN members to trade, sell, give away,
and buy the occasional household item from others members. Therefore:
- One posting per newsletter per subscriber
- Maximum of three postings per month per subscriber
Craigslist or Freecycle
are the best places to post if you need sell or give away
items more than 3 times in a month.
- One posting per newsletter per subscriber (unless responding to a question)
- During the "season" *: maximum of one post every other week from the same school or camp
- All other times: maximum of one post per month from the same school or camp
* The "season" is the time of year when parents are most actively looking
for a school or camp:
- Schools & Preschools: October - February
- Summer Camps: March - June [and the month prior to school holiday camps]
During the season, many schools and camps post to the BPN newsletter
about tours, open houses, registration, and informational sessions.
Parents are interested in reading these, but it is annoying to see the
same schools posting multiple times week after week. This can also
reflect badly on the school, since it can give the appearance that the
school is having trouble filling its open slots. Please post
judiciously.
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Last updated: Oct 11, 2009
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