As you probably know, we've been having difficulty finding good hashtags for our monthly pawties. Originally we simply used to use #NipClub for everything, but we found out the hard way that during the weekend non-anipals were finding the hashtag, misinterpreting what it was about (they apparently had never heard of catnip!) and posting some seriously inappropriate comments on the timeline, which were unpleasant to read and totally ruined the fun atmosphere. When they started flooding individual timelines with obscenities, we clearly had to change things.
However, having a "throw-away" hashtag hasn't altogether worked well, either. As more people use more hashtags it's getting harder and harder to find one that's appropriate to the theme of our pawty and not already overwhelmed by other traffic, and a lot of pals have pointed out that a one-off tag is all too easy to get wrong.
A number of pals have suggested having a regular hashtag other than #NipClub for our weekend pawties, which is a great idea in principle, but it's still turned out to be quite difficult to find a good one that is otherwise unoccupied. It's so far proved impossible to find a really short and memorable one that's free, so this weekend we're trying out #NC24H (NipClub 24 Hours). If it works well that's great and we'll adopt it as our regular weekend hashtag, making it much easier to get used to and remember than a temporary one, and if it doesn't we'll try something else.
I do apologise for any inconvenience to #NipClub staff and pawty-goers, but hopefully things will be much easier once we've found a regular weekend hashtag that is safe and user-friendly :-)
Thank you Shayna. xox
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