Musicademy Worship Community Rules

These are the rules for membership of the Musicademy Facebook Group called The Musicademy Worship Community.

We are building a supportive environment that everyone will enjoy so have created some important rules for behavior in the Group.

Be helpful

Provide genuine and helpful feedback and suggestions to others.

Ask questions. Don’t be afraid to start a new thread. No question is too stupid.

Give answers. You may not know the whole answer but between us we can build up plenty of responses. Often there is no one single right answer.

Be supportive.

It’s fine to be a lurker but we love it when lots of people get involved and comment in the threads.

Trolls will be removed. Aggressive, inappropriate language posts will be removed.

This probably isn’t the best place for lengthy sermons….

No self-promotion  

No self-promotion is allowed, except in our Friday Free For All, or where otherwise explicitly stated.

Be sure to check out each other’s work in the Friday Free For All and support each another.

We will delete any posts with self promoted content. Repeat offenders will be removed from the group – sorry to be so tough but no one likes a load of advertising and we’ve seen too many other groups spoilt with it.

Definition of self-promotion: 

  • Selling anything – that means albums, products, services, courses, events and programs. It even means giving away “free” stuff if it’s something you have a vested interest in. Although it is fine to post relevant links to stuff other people have created that you are not closely connected to
  • Promoting your event whether in the real world or online (it’s fine to post links to relevant events that you are not closely connected to though)
  • Posting a link to your OWN or your company or church website unless it is mega relevant and within the context of a thread that someone else has started
  • Posting affiliate links
  • Posting your own content in the group and not in a specific (and relevant) thread.

You can however, post links to your website, group, FB page, webinar, survey, offer and social profiles in the Friday Free For All.

But that’s the only time :)

We may break our own rule and promote something if we feel as though it is of service to the group. We reserve that right but this isn’t a place where we intend to do a lot of salesy stuff so don’t be concerned!

For now we will permit links to worship related job opportunities on any day.

No solicitation or requests to PM you

Do not post in the group and ask people to PM you to find out more about what you offer, how you can help or to work with you.

Your comments (and YOU) will be removed.

Recognise that group members are diverse: be respectful

This Group has members from all over the world and from multiple denominations and theological streams. We LOVE that.

We don’t believe that any one denomination or theological stream has it all figured out.

You’ll encounter people here that believe different things to you and do church, life or worship differently to you. Some may be very traditional, some may be rather more experimental. That’s fine. Respect them. Let them have their opinions and beliefs. DO NOT try to change them. You are welcome to share an alternative perspective but do it respectfully.

We’re comfortable with slightly heated debates but ask that you keep discussion respectful.

Use the group to ask questions rather than emailing Musicademy

Honestly, *we* don’t have all the answers. But our community here has a lot of them. So rather than emailing us asking “What mic do you recommend for a recording”, ask the community here. We’ll jump in when we have something to recommend ourselves, and we’ll say so kindly if we think anyone is giving advice counter to what we’d consider best practice.

If you’ve got a specific customer service issue or something more private that you’d like to discuss, then by all means email us. [email protected]

Don’t PM or friend-request group admins

We ask that you respect the time and privacy of our Admins and not DM them through FB or submit friend requests: sorry but we don’t accept friend requests from people we’ve not met in real life. By all means you can tag us in group threads though.

You can email us at [email protected]

We will reply to your email in a timely manner generally within a working day but if your email requires us to do some investigation it may take a little longer.

 

**Note: These rules are subject to change without notice. We might change them or people in the community are also welcome to make suggestions. The rules are here to make this a comfortable and supportive place for everyone.

WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE

Introduce yourself

It’s great when members post an introduction to themselves and what they do. You might talk about your role in the worship team, confess to Guitar Acquisition Syndrome or just share your name, where you come from and perhaps a selfie so we get to see your face too.

Post questions, helpful links, stories, observations, dilemmas

This is a community. It’s facilitated by the Musicademy team but it’s a place where we hope the community will create and respond to content that reflects their challenges as worship musicians, celebrates their achievements, confesses their errors, posts about a new gear purchase, asks for tech advice, shares a moan about how high worship songs seem to be nowadays.

Share your thoughts and experiences because they are interesting and helpful to others.

Answer questions, support other people

We learned years ago over on the Musicademy Facebook Page that our “Ask the Expert” questions were always far better answered when we threw them out to the fans rather than giving the answer ourselves. Sure we’ll share our two penneth worth but you guys are great – you have loads of experience between you and plenty of wisdom to share.

Phew! That was a long one!

Well done on getting this far :)

Now let’s connect and have some fun.