Alright, I have gotten in trouble for this a while ago. And, I will not do it again. But...
Why is it that hosts of meets would publicly post their email addresses on the meet information sites (with no restriction specified) and would give people a hard time for contacting them concerning a meet.
I am the moderator and web manager of our club's communication sites and I post meet result information and such for our parents and gymnasts. I used to contact gyms when results are not available for a meet and many gyms that I had reached were perfectly fine with that. ...until one time a few years ago. When I courteously and gently contacted one gym via email about online results I got chewed out big time. I was basically told that I wasn't privileged and I was out of line for contacting them. Not only that, the host owner actually went ahead to complain to our gym owners. (BTW, this meet has a results page already existed)
Alright, so the message was that I was not conforming to the protocol of the industry. Because of this and other similar incidences by other parents, we are constantly reminded not to contact any gym personally.
I understand the potential overwhelming email messages and phone calls. And, hosts are very busy putting on the event and they aren't able to respond to and be bothered by all the gymnasts' parents' inquiries.
So, my questions here are:
1. is there such a general protocol in other regions around the country or is this just only regional?
2. why would the host gym put contact info for the public to see but they don't want to be contacted by a Joe Schmo parent? Why don't they just say something like "Contact: XXX-XXXX (Meet Coordinator Only).
3. how are gymnastics meets any different than any other events, including competition of other sports? I mean those people are busy too.
Why is it that hosts of meets would publicly post their email addresses on the meet information sites (with no restriction specified) and would give people a hard time for contacting them concerning a meet.
I am the moderator and web manager of our club's communication sites and I post meet result information and such for our parents and gymnasts. I used to contact gyms when results are not available for a meet and many gyms that I had reached were perfectly fine with that. ...until one time a few years ago. When I courteously and gently contacted one gym via email about online results I got chewed out big time. I was basically told that I wasn't privileged and I was out of line for contacting them. Not only that, the host owner actually went ahead to complain to our gym owners. (BTW, this meet has a results page already existed)
Alright, so the message was that I was not conforming to the protocol of the industry. Because of this and other similar incidences by other parents, we are constantly reminded not to contact any gym personally.
I understand the potential overwhelming email messages and phone calls. And, hosts are very busy putting on the event and they aren't able to respond to and be bothered by all the gymnasts' parents' inquiries.
So, my questions here are:
1. is there such a general protocol in other regions around the country or is this just only regional?
2. why would the host gym put contact info for the public to see but they don't want to be contacted by a Joe Schmo parent? Why don't they just say something like "Contact: XXX-XXXX (Meet Coordinator Only).
3. how are gymnastics meets any different than any other events, including competition of other sports? I mean those people are busy too.
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