Updated Group Advertising Guidelines

We begin to have members sign-on who only wish to post direct advertisements for their products. Subsequently, it has become time to establish an advertising policy.

 

All direct advertising posts by persons who are not a member and who have not participated in the group by previously contributing at least an equal number of non-advertising content posts on the group topic(s) will be deleted. If you are not an actively posting member, your ads will be removed. A link to this policy will be posted in the “reason for deletion” section of each deleted advertisement.

Posting ads as "Anonymous participant" is not permitted. Such ads will be removed. Repeated posts as "Anonymous participant" will result in being blocked from the group.

All direct advertisements must strictly adhere to the group topic.  All direct advertisements in comment sections must strictly adhere to the topic of the associated post.

 

The member must post at least one non-advertising post on the group topic for every direct ad posted.  Previous non-advertising posts do not count towards this requirement.  This means that posting two ads between which the advertising member has not posted at least one non-advertising post is against the rules.  No other member may post in order to meet the advertiser’s obligation.  The advertising member themselves must make the post.

Failure to post at least one non-advertising post will result in deletion of an ad.

 

The non-advertising post will not count towards the member’s obligation if it has previously been posted.

 

No member is permitted to make a direct advertising post more often than twice per calendar month.  No direct advertising post for the same product will be posted more often than twice per calendar month. 

ADVERTISING LIMITS AND CONDITIONS MAY BE REVISED THEREFORE THE ADVERTISER IS ADVISED TO READ THIS NOTICE ON EACH OCCASION THEY THINK TO POST AN AD.

Legitimate content that also advertises a member’s products or effort does not fall under this obligation.  This to say that posting a link to an article which includes advertising is not “direct” advertising and therefore does not fall under these guidelines.  Posting a one-off music or instructional/documentary video on the group topic is not “direct” advertising (even if it also includes a product link on its landing page).

Posting PODcast episodes or selections from video series, however, is direct advertising and must agree to and follow the above  guidelines.  The individual episodes of regularly scheduled weekly PODcasts can be advertised once per week.  The member advertising must still post another non-advertising post for each advertising post.

 

THESE GUIDELINES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.  ALWAYS READ THEM BEFORE POSTING AN AD.

 

DO NOT POST DIRECT ADVERTISING LINKS IN COMMENT SECTIONS UNLESS IT IS CLEARLY AN ADDITION TO THE SUBJECT BEING DISCUSSED.  OTHERWISE IT WILL BE REMOVED AND THE MEMBER WILL BE REMOVED FOR REPEATED INFRACTIONS.

 

Also at Virtual Grub Street:

• Elizabeth I’s Progress to Cambridge University, 1564: The Host Makes Ready. April 4, 2021. “A special traveling staff called the “harbingers” arrived a day or two before the Queen trailed by drovers and carts.”
• On Shakespeare and Drinking Smoke. January 4, 2021. “The debate raged for some time: Had Shakespeare smoked pot? Tobacco? Both?”
• The Grand Ceremony of the Baptism of Prince James of Scotland (later James VI). December 15, 2020. “The infant James was also reported, in the English court, as having been gravely ill.”
• A 1572 Oxford Letter and the Player’s Speech in Hamlet. August 11, 2020. “The player’s speech has been a source of consternation among Shakespeare scholars for above 200 years.  Why was Aeneas’ tale chosen as the subject?”
• Check out the English Renaissance Article Index for many more articles and reviews about this fascinating time and about the Shakespeare Authorship Question.
• Check out the English Renaissance Letter Index for many letters from this fascinating time, some related to the Shakespeare Authorship Question.