I LOVE seeing barnbums postings about her foals, and based on the number of views and responses it is obvious that a whole lot of other people do to. I WANT to see photos of Guam and Spain and France and Australia and some beautiful places here in the U.S. I believe those, too are of general interest, but don't take my word for it, just look at the numbers of views and responses those posts get.
And those posts aren't the problem. I think they are appropriate for GCC. But right now, we are in the all-or-nothing situation because as I mentioned above, we changed the guidelines from "interesting" to "personal". It happened because some people... well, read above.
How would you formulate the guidelines to explain that the posts you outlined are welcome in GCC, without creating a long list with all possible topics a person can and can't post?
And frankly, with all due respect, I think you are completely wrong.
You misunderstood what I wrote :)
I never said that every single one-word post is an attempt to bump a topic.
As a matter of fact, majority of them aren't.
It's about the intent -- an example of people intentionally doing something to circumvent the guidelines.