That's really nice! To be honest, the foodies community was once one that I loved to publish in but as the admin requires you to publish a few selfies mandatory with every post, holding ingredients etc, I unsubscribed because I won't do that.
It's good to see some sub communities like this. Even though I don't have my own bbq, I could publish there when I eat it somewhere else I hope? I need to RTFM first :)
Good luck with the community!
That's a good point. I hadn't thought about people eating at a BBQ place, I might have to change the rules and allow for that. You should definitely feel free to do that. I can understand why they probably made those changes to the foodies community, but I also understand why that is a non starter for some people.
You know what bothered me the most was probably the fact that I had been publishing there for a few years without any issues and suddenly I received a comment to read the rules and add selfies. I had no clue this was a new rule, because let's be honest, once you are familiar with a community, you won't read the rules every time before you hit publish.
The tone in the message was rude even though I said that's a shame because I can't do that I was met with more rudeness. I'm not your typical "f the rules" hive member who doesn't care if you made them. It's the fact I didn't know and a friendlier message was probably smarter to send people who are long time publishers in the community.
It's sad though because since then I didn't really feel that some content (food related) fit anywhere when hitting publish. I would love to see more sub communities like this. And of course when you allow it, you don't have the "prepping" pictures so I would set a minimum set of photos as a requirement or X words whatever.
You can create a good post without being the chef, I have written quite a few good foodies posts over the years..
Your community will definitely get some more visibility if you allow it, so please let me know when you do because I love eating BBQ :)
Yeah, that sucks. Sometimes people let the power go to their heads a bit too much. I've probably done it a time or two myself outside of Hive. The changes have already been made, so you should be good to go.
Ah that's fast lol. I will publish as soon as I have some BBQ content again.. Thanks for that!
And yes power gets to some people's heads sometimes for sure lol.