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Site Announcements and Feedback => Announcements/Feedback/Suggestions => Topic started by: Moderation Team on Fri, 28 March 2014, 15:22:05
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Dear geekhackers,
We have quite a few people who make wonderful keyboard-related items and offer them to the community: custom wrist rests, sleeved cables, painted keycaps, embroidered knitted keyboard cozies (okay, not that one yet, but why not?!), etc., etc. We also have a lot of tinkerers who periodically offer their keyboard assembly and modification services, or even entire custom keyboards: from making custom kits to specification to assembling them as well.
In an effort to provide official space for artisan services in our community, we have allocated a new subforum (currently hidden until the official unveiling) in the Marketplace area, for anyone who wishes to list their own work for sale. The difference between this new subforum and the existing Classifieds, beyond the Classifieds being used for the purpose of reselling premade goods that are already on hand, is in the looser rules that permit more liberal formatting of sale threads and allow for more detailed discussion of goods being offered.
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We have talked to some of our existing "commercial vendors" who are really more in the "Artisan" category, and many of them will be moving their subforums under the Artisan Services header, some will be posting in the combined space.
As a team of moderators and administrators, we will be actively monitoring and evaluating our current artisans in case their services or commercial nature expand enough to be moved into the Commercial Vendor area.
In the meantime, here are the guidelines for posting in the Artisan Services subforum and any of its child boards:
ARTISAN SERVICES - SUBFORUM PUPOSE AND POSTING GUIDELINES
This subforum provides ad space for small-scale artisans to offer their work to geekhack members.
Examples of services that may be offered here are:
- custom-crafted or painted keycaps
- custom-crafted keyboard parts and accessories, such as wrist rests, key pullers, cleaning brushes, stickers, etc.
- keyboard modification services, such as switch modification, LED replacement, case modification, keyboard assembly, and the like
- any other services that follow the same principles
This space is not for resale of custom goods by commercial vendors.
If you purchase a custom item from an artisan and wish to resell it, please use the Classifieds subforum (http://geekhack.org/index.php?board=59.0) to do so.
Group Buys hosted by artisans should be posted in the Group Buys subforum (http://geekhack.org/index.php?board=70.0).
Established artisans who wish to maintain multiple threads for different lines of work and feel constrained by a combined subforum may apply for a child board dedicated to their work, nested under the Artisan Services subforum--much like the child boards for Commercial Vendors.
Posting Guidelines:
Artisans:
- Try to be descriptive with your thread titles
- If you wish to associate a certain name with your creations, you can add it to your thread title, such as "[DON'S LEATHERWORKING] embossed custom leather wrist rests in many colors"
- Please keep your threads up-to-date with relevant information being compiled in the first post. If you anticipate a long thread, you can reserve the second and third posts for future revisions
Everyone Else:
- Keep your posts relevant to the items or services offered as much as possible
Disclaimer: at the discretion of the moderator reviewing your post(s), discussion which belongs in another subforum is subject to being moved without advance notice, with a temporary redirect link being left in its place. Posts that violate rules and/or carry no on-topic relevance may be subject to deletion. These guidelines are subject to change in response to community needs (in which case, retroactive corrections may be performed "as they are discovered" if the link is still valid).
This thread is open for discussion if you have any questions the greater community may share, or you may feel free to PM one of the moderators.
As with other subforums, posts can be reported here. If someone appears to be breaking either an overall site-wide rule, or one of the guidelines listed above, please report it and it will be addressed.
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Excited for the Artisan's sub forum section! Thank you. :)
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Very awesome, I am looking forward to this. Thanks very much for all the administration work, mods. :thumb:
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If anyone will require assistance moving their ongoing threads from the Classifieds section to the Artisan Services, just let us know! (or you can start new ones, if you prefer).
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Does this mean bro caps and click clacks go from vendor to artisan services?
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Does this mean bro caps and click clacks go from vendor to artisan services?
Well those two are artist so it would make sense to put them in Artisan Services.
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Does this mean bro caps and click clacks go from vendor to artisan services?
Well those two are artist so it would make sense to put them in Artisan Services.
so post your bro bots will go in media and his selling threads will go into artisan now? Just want to make sure and understand how this new system will work
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It will work in same way as it does right now. Their subforums will move into a different area.
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thanks for clearing up any questions i had, great detailed post :thumb:
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YAY MORE UNNECESSARY SUBS!!!
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YAY MORE UNNECESSARY SUBS!!!
Thanks for your stamp of approval <3 We knew it was coming!
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Great addition right here! Thanks for setting that up.
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YAY MORE UNNECESSARY SUBS!!!
Thanks for your stamp of approval <3 We knew it was coming!
well so far everything that has been changed has been unnecessary. but our opinions don't matter since decisions are made between the admins and mods.
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I don't see the Artisan Services thread in the classified list? Has it not been implemented yet?
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(currently hidden until the official unveiling)
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Do you have an ETA, specific or otherwise, as to when this subforum will open ?
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embroidered knitted keyboard cozies (okay, not that one yet, but why not?!)
I have a knitted keyboard cozy to keep my HHKB safe while in a bag. Will post soon :)
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This subforum is now available to everyone interested!
Some of the behind-the-scenes artisan transition will be taking place over the next couple of weeks, as you may be noticing that some vendor child boards have moved into the Artisan Services section.
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This subforum is now available to everyone interested!
Some of the behind-the-scenes artisan transition will be taking place over the next couple of weeks, as you may be noticing that some vendor child boards have moved into the Artisan Services section.
What exactly do we have to do to get a thread in artisans services?
does renting out my signature count?
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YAY MORE UNNECESSARY SUBS!!!
Gonna have to agree here^..
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I think we need a subforum under Off Topic for **** Demik Says. One thread just ain't enough.
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Aka the truth forum
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I think we need a subforum under Off Topic for **** Demik Says. One thread just ain't enough.
Aka the truth forum
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I think we need a subforum under Off Topic for **** Demik Says. One thread just ain't enough.
Aka the truth forum
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I think we need a subforum under Off Topic for **** Demik Says. One thread just ain't enough.
Aka the truth forum