taswaterfalls.com wrote:could we bend the forum rules a touch to allow naming of stores if its for a heads up to special items like this or if the store has some ridiculous savings on a single item?
Certainly! This has never been against the rules as such, and I have no problems with mentioning specifics, so long as such posts are solely for the purpose of providing useful information, and not for advertising. (I've actually done this here once or twice myself already). I'll go and update the rules to make it a bit clearer.
Eg, "hey, I found this great thingamabob, at 'Bob's Great Camping Shop' in Stuart Street" would be fine, if people were not generally aware of 'thingamabobs', or had been asking where they might find one.
Please take extra care if you have a particular connection with a business to not become an advertiser for them, whether deliberately or otherwise. Repeated references to the same shop, may eventually be interpreted as advertising by the moderators.
It is difficult to draw the line sometimes, and relies on people being fair dinkum, but I think we're mostly a sensible mob here. I do try to be more careful myself than I would expect others to be, as I don't want it to look like the site admin (and by inference, the entire site) is biased or prejudiced for or against any particular business.
But back to the topic at hand...
My guess is that he was referring to Kathmandu. Am I right?