Shoyoroll Drama Free

Welcome to the homepage for Shoyoroll Drama Free Buy, Trade & Sell. This shall serve as an natural access point for all people interested in knowing more about this exciting project. From here you can easily navigate to other blog posts that have been made to address, in detail, specific aspects of Shoyoroll Drama Free.

But first, what is Shoyoroll Drama Free?

It is a project birthed in the need to have a coordinated effort on both Instagram and Facebook where you, as a fan of Shoyoroll ("ShoyoFan") can have a place to:

• Follow all the news of upcoming drops from Shoyoroll corporate;
• List your Shoyoroll gis and gear for sale and expose that opportunity on either Facebook or Instagram or BOTH to thousands of other ShoyoFans; thereby giving you the best opportunity to sell your items;
• Post an "In Search Of" listing, again on either Facebook or Instagram or BOTH, where thousands of fellow ShoyoFans will see what you are looking for; thereby giving you the best possibility of finding what you desire, currently residing in one or more of their stashes;
• A place where you can be assured there will be no drama, hate or negativity allowed toward you (or any member or follower), your post, prices or comments.
• And best of all, this is done for you at no cost to you. Our project is run by a small group of ShoyoFans who do it for the benefit of other fans of Shoyoroll, like you. 

So, if you want to dig down and learn more about specific aspects of Shoyoroll Drama free, here are some links for you.

To Join & Follow

Well first of all let us start where you can follow us on Instagram and/or join our Facebook group. Both links are below.

On Instagram we are @ShoyorollDramaFree and can be found by clicking this link as well.

https://www.instagram.com/shoyorolldramafree/

On Facebook we are a "group" and can be found by searching for groups named "Shoyoroll Drama Free" or you can easily find us via this direct link where you can request membership.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShoyorollDramaFree/

Details & Inspiration

If you would like to read all about the inspiration behind Shoyoroll Drama Free, it's founding principals, the guidelines, rules and philosophy, then you can find that all here by clicking this link.

Note, this is a long and detailed post, but it does have an Executive Summary at the beginning if you are not inclined to read all of it. Nevertheless, it is all here for you to see that a lot of time, effort and diligence has gone into this project.

http://bjjnewgear.blogspot.com/2015/10/shoyoroll-drama-free-buy-trade-and-sell.html

Posting In Drama Free

For those of you who wish to read a detailed blog about posting your gis and gear in Drama Free's Facebook Group, see some examples as well as the four basic steps to posting, well here you go.

Note, if you are going to be a frequent poster in the group and/or want to make sure you do all that you can to set your post up for success, this is worth reading at least once.

http://bjjnewgear.blogspot.com/2015/10/posting-items-for-sale-in-drama-free.html

Drama Free's Instagram

Here you will find details on the history, purpose and cross promotion between Instagram and Facebook. But most of you will be most interested in the section on how to buy/trade/sell YOUR Shoyoroll gear on Drama Free's Instagram. Well, all of those details are here. And it is very easy to follow.

http://bjjnewgear.blogspot.com/2015/11/shoyoroll-drama-free-instagram.html

Bumping Guidelines

For those of you in our Facebook Group we have definitive guildlines for "bumping" your posts. These were established to maintain respect for all group members, and still allow for occasional (weekly) bumping. More details on that, please click below.

http://bjjnewgear.blogspot.com/2015/11/bumping-guidelines-for-shoyoroll-drama.html

Contact

That's it for now. There are bound to be future updates as we continue to improve Shoyoroll Drama Free for all of the members and followers. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me directly by clicking here.

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Shoyoroll Drama Free Instagram

Shoyoroll Drama Free Buy, Trade and Sell
("Drama Free")
on Instagram

LOCATION

@ShoyorollDramaFree

https://www.instagram.com/shoyorolldramafree/

BRIEF HISTORY

Shoyoroll Drama Free was first launched on Facebook in the Fall of 2015 as a group who's purpose was to provide a safe, friendly environment for all ShoyoFans to sell, buy and trade Shoyoroll gis and gear. It's that simple. Knowing that Facebook's group infrastructure is well suited for such activities that seemed to be the ideal venue for the launch of Drama Free. And so it began.

Despite Facebook having so many advantages for the Drama Free venture, our founders were also keenly aware of Facebook's limitations. Most notably the fact that people must first be a member of Facebook to join our group, post their wears, and even view the items for sale. And while there is a very large Shoyoroll following on Facebook, it is definitely not all-inclusive. In an effort to expand the reach of Drama Free and expose our members' offerings beyond Facebook, in mid-November 2015 we launched Drama Free's Instagram page

@ShoyorollDramaFree

PURPOSE

The inspiration for Drama Free's Instagram account was to provide additional exposure for our Facebook members' listings on a vehicle that reaches beyond Facebook. However, what we believe will be an additional benefit (and quite possibly overtake the primary benefit) is to give Shoyoroll fans who are on Instagram but not on Facebook (and those numbers are significant), a platform to buy, sell and trade their own Shoyoroll gis and gear in the secondary market without having to rely on eBay or other fee-for-service providers.

HOW TO SELL/BUY/TRADE YOUR SHOYOROLL GEAR

There are a few ways for you to participate in Drama Free and buy, sell or trade Shoyoroll gis and gear.

Members Of Facebook

The easiest way to participate if you are a Facebook member is to join our Drama Free group (see link below). Once you have joined then you are free to post your Shoyoroll gear for sale or trade, or scan and search the group for items that you are looking to purchase. It is that simple.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShoyorollDramaFree/

You can find Drama Free's posting guidelines here. Please read these before you start posting.

http://bjjnewgear.blogspot.com/2015/10/posting-items-for-sale-in-drama-free.html

For Facebook members who also want their posts featured on Drama Free's Instagram page, please read the section below under Cross Promotion - From Facebook to Instagram.

Instagram Followers

One primary reason for setting up the Drama Free Instagram account was to enable us to reach out to ShoyoFans who are on Instagram but not on Facebook. As a result, you also have a platform to buy, trade and sell Shoyoroll items for your own account.

And here is how you can participate and benefit from Drama Free's reach on both Instagram and Facebook.

• Make a post on YOUR Instagram page. It can be a For Sale, For Trade, or ISO post. You name it. Just as long as it's in keeping with Drama Free's posting guidelines (linked here), you are fine.
• TAG @ShoyorollDramaFree in your Instagram post.
• When we see the tag, we will repost to the Shoyoroll Drama Free Instagram page, and later we will also share that information with our Facebook group IF you have an email address where you can be contacted in your original post.

Once you get notice of our repost, you can delete your original post if you wish, or keep it up. That is up to you.

Now, if your Instagram account is set to "private" then there one additional step to take. And we've tested this, so we know that it works.

First, perform the above two (2) steps of (a) posting on your Instagram, and (b) tagging @ShoyorollDramaFree. Then you need to:

• Change your settings on your Instagram from Private to Public. 

Once you change your settings we will get a notice of your tag. Then we can use the repost app to repost onto the Drama Free Instagram page. Once we do that, you will get notice our our repost, and then you can change your settings back to Private if you wish. You can even delete the original post on your Instagram at that time should you so desire.

Simple.

CROSS PROMOTION

Cross promoting between both Facebook and Instagram is a powerful marketing tool of Shoyoroll Drama Free that no one else has. As our membership  quickly grows in both Facebook and Instagram this will become an "added-value" advantage that all members and followers will benefit from.

The concept is simple: The more people that see your item for sale, the more likely you are to find the best buyer for it. And the more people that see your ISO post for the gi that you want to buy, the more likely it is that someone who owns that gi will see your post.

Why limit yourself to just posting on your own Instagram account or in one or more Facebook groups when you can tap into a much larger pool of serious Shoyoroll fans?

Now you don't have to. Shoyoroll Drama Free Buy, Trade and Sell will do both for you.

From Facebook to Instagram

If you are active in our Facebook group and you want your For Sale/Trade items or even ISO posts put on our Instagram, please provide at least one of the following in your post:

• Your Instagram address, or 
• An email address where you can be reached.

In doing one or both of the above, it will be deemed as your desire for and permission granted to our Admin to copy your Facebook post onto Drama Free's Instagram. It's that simple.

When one of our Admin in the Facebook group sees your post, we will send it to our Instagram manager and he will add it to our page that same day/evening.

From Instagram to Facebook

Every day or two we will copy the information from all new posts on the Drama Free Instagram page into our closed group on Facebook. This will give anyone who is primarily following and utilizing Drama Free's Instagram the additional exposure of hundreds (and soon to be thousands) of ShoyoFans in our Facebook group.

Those that have an Instagram account can contact you there. But we recommend that you include an email address in all posts because many of the people on Facebook do not have an Instagram account. But they all have email.

WHAT TO DO NEXT?

If you have Facebook, click here to join the Shoyoroll Drama Free group.

If you have Instagram, click here to follow Drama Free (@ShoyorollDramaFree).

Click here to read the detailed blog post on Shoyoroll Drama Free's guidelines.

Read our blog post on the recommended guidelines for posting that is linked here.

That's all there is for now. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly via

• Facebook (linked here) or
• Email.

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Bumping Guidelines for Shoyoroll Drama Free Buy, Trade and Sell

Bumping Guidelines For

Shoyoroll Drama Free Buy, Trade and Sell

"Drama Free"

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Note, if you want to better understand what "bumping" is, scroll to the BOTTOM of this post first.
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Everyone shall be allowed to bump their posts ONCE PER WEEK ON A SPECIFIC DAY of the week according to the below schedule.

Utilizing the FIRST LETTER of your FIRST NAME (as you use on Facebook, be it your real name or not, that does not matter), you can ONLY bump YOUR posts on the corresponding day of the week per the below schedule. If you miss it one week, then you need to wait until the following week's Bump Day.

This way everyone will have a weekly “Bump Day” and the bumps of all group members will be spread out throughout the week and not occur all at one time. Plus, we don’t want people bumping every day. That is simply disrespectful to the other group members. Once a week, on a schedule, is reasonable. 

UPDATE: It's been more than a year and the weekly bumping schedule seems to work well for the group. So let's stick to it. 

Here are some other guidelines to bumping in the group:

• You can only bump your own listings. Not the listings of others. 
• If you miss your Bump Day this week, then you need to wait until your next Bump Day the following week. 
• On ISO listings, if you make a comment such as, "still looking," that is a bump. Please, reserve that type of comment for your bump day. ANY comment will bump up your post to the top of the feed, so a comment like, "still looking" is a bump. The same goes for sale listings, if you write "still available" that's a bump in disguise. Please resist the urge to do that.  
• When you bump a listing, you should also take the time to update it. 
• If other people are regularly bumping your listing by making an innocuous comment like: “Is this still available,” then that will quickly become obvious and Admin will deal with it. So please don’t do that. By the way, if you are wanting to know if an item is still available, then it is best to PM the seller directly and NOT make a comment in the post. If you need to know why that is, just ask. 
• No ghostbumping. 
• And please, please, please UPDATE your listings as things change, and mark sold listings as SOLD. We really want to try and keep the group clean and only containing actively available products and needs. 

Still wondering "WHY" do we need a bumping policy? Well, take a look at the blow image and you'll know. Here is one guys post in another group that shows his bumping. The names have not been changed to show the guilty. And this post originated on February 4th. So all these bumps were in the span of 4 days. 

Now, what is NOT considered bumping, but will still bring your thread up to the top, and you can do anytime that you need to (and not just on your Bump Day).

• Price updates, &
• Availability updates where, say you have a single listing with 3 items in it and you sell one item, updating the main body of the listing and also making a comment in the thread, such as: “White gi sold, other two still available.” This is simply active management of your listing and acceptable. 

In other words, factual changes to the listing are always welcome.

That’s it. Thank you for following all of our group guidelines that are meant to keep the group a safe, friendly, respectful and productive place. 

If you are not yet a member of SYR Drama Free, please click here to join: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ShoyorollDramaFree/

Ok, so if you want to better understand what "Bumping" is (or to "Bump" a post), here is the best explanation and guidance that I can provide.

First of all, bumping only works in Facebook GROUPS. It doesn't have any effect on a PAGE. And there is a difference. For the purposes of this information, Shoyoroll Drama Free is a GROUP. Yes, we do have a page, but that's not why you are here. 

Ok, now that that has been established; moving on. 

When a new post is allowed into a group it starts at the top of the feed. It will be the very first item you and everyone else sees when they access the group after the post is made. And then 10-seconds later when another post goes live in the group, that newer post replaces the prior post at the top of the feed. And so it goes. 

Each time a new post is made in the group, the older posts get pushed down one notch. Over a period of days or a week a post can be buried under scores of newer posts. That's the nature of a GROUP on Facebook.

Now, if you look at Shoyoroll Drama Free or any group, you will see that the posts at the top of the feed are not necessarily the newest ones. And that is because Facebook's infrastructure was designed to keep the "hot topics" up at the top of the Groups. Therefore, anytime someone makes a comment under a post, no matter how old it is, that post is immediately thrust up to the top of the feed in that Group. 

And this ^^^ is where "bumping" comes into play. 

Bumping is when you (or any other person) makes a comment under an old post for the sole purpose of bringing it up to the top of the feed so that it gets noticed. That activity is called a "bump" or "bumping" a post. It's that simple.

Now, as you should have seen at the top of this blog, Shoyoroll Drama Free has guidelines on bumping. So please, before you head off back to the Group, scroll back up to the top or click below and read the guidelines. They are working well for our group. Bumping is fine, but over-bumping, ghost-bumping or bumping posts that are not yours will get you bumped right out of the group. Necro-bumping is fine however. 

So CLICK HERE to go back to the top.

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