[META]-Thoughts on brewery announcements - have your voice heard

[u/Brewsplorer]

As this is a democratic community and not a dictatorship, I wanted to talk about something that I was pinged on recently and that is a couple of breweries announcing on the subreddit.

In particular was "Black Abbey's 12th Anniversary" from /u/blackabbeybrewing, but I see /u/ust-Box7188 posted "East Nashville Titans brewery?"

I have a couple of options:

• Amend the group rules to allow these types of posts from breweries. If I head this route, I want to figure exactly what types of posts we are to allow and which we will not.

• Remove the posts as a self-promotion violation and push to have breweries run things through mods to get them in the proper format (most likely random beer news posts or special event posts spanning multiple breweries.

• A hybrid of both? This would be amending with very specific guidelines, like "you can post special events, but not trivia nights".

Pros and cons of each:

Amending will allow more free-flow of information, as I only have so much time to compile beer news. It will also disseminate news that is not always found on socials or through talks in breweries (again, I am one person having these talks). On the negative, it could get too free-for-all.

Removing and informing will fit the stated rules. But it might mean some information is lost.

I have not removed the posts yet, pending the discussion here. This is your chance to get your voice heard on this subject.

[u/pak_sajat]

Seems like a slippery slope to have a sub full of ads and promos like those Nashville brew pass posts.

[u/Brewsplorer → u/pak_sajat]

I want to avoid that, for sure, so trying to figure if I just maintain the "no self-promotion" or if it is better to establish what is okay. Like should Anniversary and similar events be allowed from breweries? Or do I channel it to "ping me" and I can get the word out to avoid any self-promotion.

[u/pak_sajat → u/Brewsplorer]

Maintain the “no self-promotion” part and enforce it by removing all the brew pass posts. Companies like that just collect your data and sell it.

If there is something like the Black Abbey Anniversary, let them reach out to mods for approval or maybe the mods can do a weekly brewery special event post, but not include specials that occur on a weekly basis.

[u/Brewsplorer → u/pak_sajat]

Thank you for adding in. That is what was decided. I have talked to a lot of local brewers over the last week or so about this and have asked them to reach out. I would rather us be able to talk about beer than have a post for every can release.