Thanks for the comments. I ran into that problem with Aquaria Central as well and it took me FOREVER to get back on my account. I think the option of contacting the admins to notify them of our intent would be the best approach, especially in the case of Aquaria Central. Heck we could ask them to tag the notice so it doesn't disappear from the board over time.
Would you be willing to help with some of the postings? I frequent APC, plantedtank, and plantgeek, but that's about it. Are there other forums that you are a member of and post freqently to?
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From: drhooha@comcast.net
To: aga-mcm@thekrib.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:33:35 -0400
Subject: [AGA-mcm] 2009 Aquascape contest promotion
Heya,
Just wanted to throw something out for you guys to chew on......
With the promotion of the contest starting, there's a couple of issues from the Convention promo that need to be considered. As one of the promo volunteers, I would run into issues of forums deleting the post and banning me for 'spam'. It took me quite a while to get an answer from the Aquaria Central people and to have my account unbanned.
- it would be better if we have someone who is active on the forum post announcements. The issue with this is finding people who are registered on the dozens of forums we try to hit, and then hoping they will agree to do it.
- another option is to send a pm to a forum's administration to either ask permission to promote the contest on their site, or ask them to post the promo itself. The issues here are getting ignored by the staff....or language barriers with the oversees forums.
I think the latter would be easier and more 'professional'. We may not be able to get promotion on some forums, but at least we found out before getting deleted and banned, and the AGA doesn't get black-listed that way.
If we find difficulties posting on a forum, maybe we can have that noted on the list for future promotions.....
Regards,
Efren