In order to encourage community interaction the following guidelines outline how everyone is expected to behave. Abiding by these guidelines will help our community and our individual careers flourish. Additionally, failure to follow the guidelines below will result in being banned from the network.
1. Be Nice Presume the best, not the worst when others disagree with you. No one is here at Art Fair Insiders by accident - they are just as interested as you are in sharing information. Like email, text-based forum messages lose a lot of the nuance that face-to-face communication provides. So members should be sure to give the "benefit of the doubt" to others intentions when interacting.
2. No personal attacks, no name calling.
3. Be Generous Share your expertise and others will share with you, too. The collective wisdom in this group is huge. Share your knowledge and you'll soon benefit from returned favors, too. (You'll also see that the most popular member contributors to the community will be recognized publicly!)
4. Be Ethical Art Fair Insiders was started to put artists in touch with each other in order to further their professional growth and help them succeed in the art fair business. Anyone taking advantage of the free discourse on the site will be banned from the community.
Please stay on topic and don't hijack a blog or discussion for your own ends. Start a new one.
5. No Sales Pitches Please consider this a "Pitch Free Zone" where everyone can have fun together. So please no sales pitches, affiliate links, or blatant self-promotion. If you have a product, service, or event that you would like to promote to the community, please visit the Forum to post in the Classifieds section or contact Connie about advertising on the site.
That's it. The presumption is that everyone here is an adult and will behave like one.
P.S. In case you missed this Code of Conduct resides permanently at this link: http://www.artfairinsiders.com/page/code-of-conduct
Comments
I really like the advice about not doing "blatant self-promotion," since a few artists have done the "enough about me, have you seen my marvelous artwork!" routine.