(DISCLAIMER: I’m pretty sure this is not permitted, I would have sent a private inquiry if I could figure out how and to whom, and this query is not an attempt to get around any rules.)
My adult son is doing a kickstarter on an RPG he developed. I referred to it in an MPSIMS thread. I just wanted to confirm that there is no place on these forums for me - as a guest - to “plug” someone else’s creative/economic interests.
Of course I want my kid’s efforts to succeed (and he already hit his kickstarter goal). But mainly, I thought that this steampunk RPG and his steampunk SF might be of interest to some folk around here.
If you are a paying member, one of the benefits is the privilege to post in the Marketplace. Non-paying guests do not have Marketplace privileges.
Even as a paying member, you can only post in the Marketplace for something that you have a direct interest in.
Here is the rule:
So, for example, if you were a paying member instead of a guest, you would still only be able to promote it in the Marketplace if you were somehow involved financially in this venture, like if you were splitting the profits from the RPG because you kicked in money for development or were handling the advertising or something that otherwise gave you a direct stake in it.
You may want to send a PM to the Game Room moderators. They might allow the RPG to be mentioned in that forum since they often allow discussions about new games. Since I do not moderate that forum I don’t know where they draw the lines on what is and is not acceptable to post there.
Merely mentioning it is probably ok, but actively promoting it in another forum like MPSIMS is a definite no.
Alright, here’s another question - where do you see who the mods are?
I know it used to be very visible on the individual forums. I suspect it may be a display issue with my settings following one of the recent “improvements” - akin to the one that makes “Post Reply” and “New Topic” invisible white font on white background.
You could just click the Forum Leader button at the bottom of the first page, and 2 minutes later when it finally loads you can see who the mod(s) is/are for that forum. It also shows which mod is on the clock and which are AWOL.
If you’re using the old skin, there’s also just a direct list of moderators at the bottom of each forum page. This was removed for some unknown reason on the newer skin, and all work on that seems to have stalled.
FWIW, as a member, I wouldn’t mind at all a link to a kickstarter about a new game as long as it was in the course of a normal discussion. A disclaimer (“this is my son’s game, but I think it’s awesome”) would be appreciated, but I’d still probably click the link to check it out.
A new thread dedicated to the kickstarter would raise my eyebrows.
Have we had similar things, though, where authors of books post in CS or MPSIMS about their books, with links? I could easily imagine both that or someone posting, “Hey, my son just wrote this book, check it out!”
As it states in my signature, a friend of mine is running for Congress in Indiana’s 9th district. Per Bone, I can refer to this in appropriate threads (in the appropriate forum), with the stipulation that I don’t engage in any actual fundraising (or attempt to). I don’t think that’s an unreasonable request.
Then again, a kickstarter is an entirely different circumstance. So, I don’t know. This post seems kinda pointless now. Carry on.