Gorgritch_umie_killa

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. @lodion@aussie.zone @Nath@aussie.zone

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 :)

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We need to begin holding our own accountable, economically or criminally, especially when their actions undermine the democratic will of our closest allies. What weakens our allies weakens us. These people are messing with Australia's National Security and our ability to rely on stable and unified partners.

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This instance is well into a second year of existence now, and while changes have happened its stable.

Thinking about longevity, i think Aussie Zone could benefit from a direction setting and issue defining annual meeting of sorts.

Issues like the large amount of dead communities and why they're left, decisions that need to be made about inactive moderators, financing (if this hangs around for a long time this might become an issue for Lodion), broader direction setting, also might be a good way to look back on the years events and assess whats happened perhaps after some time has passed.

Its structure being analogous to a companys AGM, hence the name, the thread could be locked after two days or a week, etc, and amount of questions allowed per user limited.

In saying all this, i'm not forgetting that this is Lodion and Nath's beast. But i think it could be useful to find out the broader instances thoughts or concerns, for instance if a user doesn't feel an issue warrants its own thread, an AGT could be useful for that.

And, of course, the structure would have to be thoughtfully done. It can't set up an us against them scenario in any configuration that could possibly detrimentally occur. Can't also be an agonybaints session, the rules would have to foster only productive and earnest conversation.

I don't know, I by no means have a fully fleshed out idea here. But what do people think of an AGT or something along that vein?

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Phew! This last day there have been some pretty toxic comments on Aussie Zone from people from other instances.

Is it just me noticing or have there been more than usual today?

Starting to understand beehaws move to a more private setting a while back.

^note: i'm not calling for anything, just venting my spleen^