I was thinking that's where this is at, but hadn't seen the steps yet.

if you want to try making your own, curio on mass ave has great chai blends. i love the uncommon chai, nice and spicy

Redfeather Roleplaying is good people. The playerbase is located largely in the Cambridge/Somerville area and out towards Springfield. They currently have 3 active games, which I will describe (badly for brevity) as etherpunk in the age of sail, traditional fantasy-adventure in the woods, and magitech on a traveling city. Crappy placeholder website here.

I'm not sure if Romancing Jan is still running, but keep an eye on Incantrix Productions and Rainbow Unicorn Games for inclusive and queer-friendly events with high production values.

Club Drosselmeyer is a theater dinner semi-larp sort of thing that runs every December, and is great fun.

You can also connect with more nerds at places like Athena School of Arms, Knight Moves Cafe, Pandemonium Games, and Comicazi books and games.

Probably several places I'm missing, but that's off the top of my head. Happy to go into more detail about any of them.

http://neromass.com/index.html

But as I said, COVID may have shut them down, plus the core group was getting old, the original guys have to be pushing 60 (the main campaign started in the late 80s). At its peak, it had hundreds at events

I do not. ☹️

I’m constantly finding new places that’d work for events. Don’t suppose you have any contact info for the NERO group?

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If you have any kind of association with MIT, join the MIT assassins guild and LARP to your heart’s content!

I'm all for it so long as the ads are strictly for things inside the city. Don't care about stuff in Somerville or Boston. Always down to support local business or events

If it's one post and they're actually engaging with the community and not just dropping the ad and leaving, then I might be okay with it. Even if they're not offering free slices.

The ones that bug me things like the constant ads for comedy events, where they blindly blast it across multiple subreddits, and continue to do so even when they don't get any engagement.

Reddit has pretty good guidelines here: https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043504051-What-constitutes-spam-Am-I-a-spammer-

And while it's no longer updated, the self-promotion guidelines are really good: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

I'd vote to allow social and public interest events like block parties, music shows, lectures, political rallies, etc.

I think self-promotion is fine as long as it's disclosed and the same things isn't posted too frequently. For example, if someone on this sub is putting together a Mexican cooking class, I'd like to hear about it. But if they run a class every Sunday, they shouldn't post about it more than once every 6? months or so.

Just to be clear - I'm imagining a self-promotion being something like "Hey folks, I finally opened my pizza shop! Come in today if you'd like to try a free slice :)". And in that case, I'd see no problem with it. I like the idea of letting cool local businesses support themselves, on the condition that there has to be a free event involved, and if someone gets spammy about it, they can be asked to stop.

How do you feel about that? Is that considered a commercial event, which you'd be opposed to?

I'm not a mod or anything, just curious to make conversation with other people.

I used to do NERO back in the day, so much fun. I’m not sure the local chapter survived COVID. Anyway, if you can get some interest, I’d give it a shot. There are plenty of good locations for running events out in the suburbs.

Oh, man I would like to have to ability to work with metal.

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How about a stickied post where people can comment and self-promote? That way, those who want to know what’s happening can stay in the loop, and those who would rather not see it can avoid it

I support allowing free event planners post.

The idea is that we as residents could benefit from postings about local events like farmers markets and bands. I could see how such a rule change could be abused.

This is an interesting point. MLM seminars should always be excluded, free or otherwise. Same with large comercial events. I wouldn’t want to exclude postings from local music venues. Thankfully, our rules don’t have to be perfectly worded and we can use our digression for individual posts

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So I started to say, no-profits would be okay but then I wondered, would I mind a weekly ad for the farmer's markets or open studios events? Local craft fairs? That lands different than someone trying to attract people for an MLM or a bank having an "event."

Can anyone give a sense of what would be exclusionary criteria for these posts?

No self-promotion for commercial events, even if it's free. I think self-promotion is fine if it's something like city government or philanthropic events.

I like the idea of a sticky. This sub is relatively low traffic in terms on new posts. I don’t think having events be a significant portion of new topics would be a good thing.