craftgrrl | Dear Craftgrrl; a mod mod letter. (Reply)

Dear Craftgrrls (and boys)

At the end of last year we modified the info page for craftgrrl in order to clarify many points. If you haven’t read through our rules lately, please give them a look. This is a high traffic community. We don’t expect you to read every post every day (that’s our unpaid job) but we want you to be up to date.

Recently some folks have asked if we aren’t being just a weeeeeeee bit picky about enforcing the rule about not referring to sale sites.

The sad truth is that some people do post in craftgrrl to drum up potential sales for what they make…but we also know that many of you who do sell your items post here for feedback, to share like proud parents, to gain encouragement, and to get to know fellow crafters; we don’t want to discourage you from doing that! ! We prefer this to be a place of show and tell, not show and sell, but we can’t guess who is here for what. You may feel that an off the cuff comment* about having an on-line store is much different than posting a huge blinky-pink link to the store, but both can be used to drum up sales. Because we can’t judge your intent (I keep trying to knit a mind-reading hat but all attempts have failed or been felted) we consider both to be “references to Ebay/Etsy shops and listings, selling journals, or on-line shops."

I hope this explains where we are coming from

Thanks once more to all the wonderful posters who come to show and tell, we'd be empty with out you.

*Edited to add: We mean comments/remarks IN the body of the post. We do not moderate the content of the "lj comments" that come after the post. Sorry for the confusion.