Hashtags:

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All posts must be tagged properly otherwise they will not be counted. Each constituencies tag is their name with nothing else added.

Examples:

#GEXII [Lothian and Fife]

#GEXII [North East]

#GEXII [National]

The names of constituencies are as they are on the candidate list spreadsheet. Be careful for example with 'North and Central Wales' which is sometimes mistakenly written as 'North and Mid Wales'. It only takes a second to check! That said, if you make a mistake, just tag me in the thread and I'll be aware if it - it's no issue.

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Campaign Post Limits

A reminder we have post limits for the General Election.

These are:

• 5 posts for you in the constituency you are running in (if applicable) - personal posts
• 5 posts for each member to use in any constituency they want (apart from the one they are running in, if applicable) - visit posts

There are also national posts, which are unlimited to all - note though that these all contribute to the national scores and not the constituency scores - if you want to influence that directly use a personal or a visit post!

Please note there will not be regional posts this election - these were always treated as national posts and calling them regional posts leads to people believing they influence list votes only or are some sort of 'super constituency' post - this is not the case. If you want to do something focusing on a region, do a national post or a constituency post and just discuss the region. Cleaning this up also solves the misconception with Northern Ireland.

National posts are important still, because they do affect your party at a national level so make sure you run well rounded campaigns but they just won't affect individual constituencies directly. Please also note that national posts are...well national posts - they should be part of the party campaign. If you just use them as 'extra constituency/personal posts' these will not score well.

If people go over the limit only their first 5 posts in the category will be counted. I will also be keeping track of the posts submitted so don't delete any in an attempt to game things.

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Campaigning Tips

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There's no 'best' way to do a good campaign - you can win high or you can win wide. Some general tips though:

• Campaign! Your campaign should actually focus on issues - the most simple mistake are posts that just go out there, say how wonderful they are and that everyone clapped and then move on. No - focus on issues.
• You don't have to diversify but pictures are welcome. Doing all text posts is perfectly fine, doing all pictures are perfectly fine. Quality is more important. Don't think that doing a picture is a 'waste' of a campaign because you can get so many more words into a text post - that's not the case.
• Memes are fun, but not all memes. I like fun campaigns, but if you go wildly off track it's just going to score poorly - memes whilst also campaigning on the serious issues - great!
• The best campaigns have themes - maybe a massive event, maybe different issues each day, maybe following the national campaign, a battle bus, whatever. It can be unique and there are so many ways to do it but make it mean something not just words.
• Separate national and constituency campaigning. As said above they are separate things. My biggest pet peeve are seeing national posts that are clearly designed for someones constituency but they think it'll have more 'impact' as a national. No, they're different! Theresa May wouldn't campaign on keeping Lowestoft's Lido open on the BBC News at Ten (okay, maybe she would).

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I'll add more as and when I think of them but feel free to ask me in the replies if you have questions.