An announcement...

...about announcements.

Hopefully we'd all agree that one of the great things about Blipfoto is the distinct lack of advertising. There are no horrible flashy banners and our contributors are generally very good at not plugging their own interests. It's an important rule which helps make Blipfoto such a good place to spend time.

But, like all the best rules, it's never going to be as simple as you think. Sometimes a contributor might want to appeal to the rest of the community for help with something else they're involved in, or make an announcement about one of their other projects.

Most of the time that's absolutely fine, but we have to make sure the work we put into Blipfoto and the goodwill of the community aren't being taken advantage of. Every example has to be judged on its own merit and that can take some time.

For that reason, we're asking that from here on in anyone who wants to make any such announcement or appeal to the community gets in touch with us using the contact form.

If your request doesn't fall foul of the advertising rule and we think it's something that might interest our contributors, we'll publish it for you right here on the Blipblog. That means we get the chance to consider things properly before publication and you get much more exposure than you would posting on your own journal.

(It also means we won't have to cut any more wonky speech bubbles out of white card.)