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Commercial-Life-9998 t1_j6ff2qj wrote

It sounds great if you do it for a trial period to see if it’s a good thing for the subreddit. Might put some add how far out from Cambridge would be acceptable.

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ClarkFable t1_j6fgq2z wrote

This. See how it goes, then seek input after the trial period. I'd also consider just limiting it to a single post per event.

The other alternative is to do a sticky post for each week, and let all event promoters post within that as comments.

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BuckyWunderlick007 t1_j6fktxv wrote

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.

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blackdynomitesnewbag OP t1_j6fh74b wrote

I had been doing a weekly sticky post with events I pulled from the city calendar and a prompt saying that anyone could post any event in the comments. I got lazy though and stopped doing it. I've picked making the post back up, but I haven't populated it with calendar events.

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realvladdiputtn t1_j6hlu61 wrote

Cambridge Day puts out a weekly event list every Sunday that you can easily link to. The full link name rotates every week, but it looks like you can chop off the end and it’ll still link like:

Full (unpredictable): https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/01/29/a-week-of-events-in-cambridge-and-somerville-from-valentines-rb-show-to-hasty-pudding/

Abbreviated (predictable): https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/01/29/a-week-of-events-in-cambridge-and-somerville

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blackdynomitesnewbag OP t1_j6fh0f2 wrote

I like the idea of a trial period. Would probably want to to keep it to events in Cambridge proper.

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