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| quote: | Originally posted by neogaia
Crowd-sourced is the way to go as opposed to one person keeping track of a ton events. I've done that in the past for the DC scene, posting a calendar of every EDM event I knew of in a given week but the promoter automatically posting to a calendar is way more sustainable. |
Dave covered a lot of the issues.
Crowd-sourced would be great but the quality just isn't there. That's what you'd get at sfstation.com and good luck getting past the first dozen pages of top40 clubs. Even residentadvisor, which used to be great for clean listing of techno events is now getting spammed by things like PURA latin nights at 1015 folsom.
Promoters can and many already do submit their events to SFEDM, but I approve less then 50% of the submissions as-is, without having to modify them.
First, I straight up reject around 15% of submissions because they're just hip-hop/mashups/"dance hits" normal club nights. The other 35% of submissions I have to edit a bit, by either un-marking local bedroom djs that were marked as "headliners", looking for the tickets link because the submitter only posted a facebook page, removing spammy event names like "NYE 2012: OMG THE BIGGEST PARTY EVER LOL", replacing third tier "promoters" with the main promoter of the night, etc.
Then there is the fact that we are posting about events based on booking agency announcements and artists' own sites, in many cases weeks before the promoter will even start promoting the shows. In the end, I'd say 70% of SFEDM's event are entered by me or a couple other friends.
In the end, some level of moderation is absolutely needed.
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Last edited by 2tall on Dec-07-2011 at 19:11
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