I enjoy this newsletter and the events list, but I really wish y'all wouldn't use AI to generate flyers. It makes them look like fake events! The Holladay cleanup flyer is particularly gross.
Thank you for reading and for caring enough about our events to speak up, that matters, and I don't want that to get lost in this reply.
I want to gently push back on one thing, though. The person who made that flyer is a volunteer. They gave up their own time, with no design budget and no marketing team, to help get the word out about a cleanup that benefits everyone in this community. The flyer isn't the event, it's a small, imperfect piece of a much bigger act of care.
That said, I hear what you're actually pointing at: a flyer that looks "fake" isn't just an aesthetic complaint, it's a trust problem. If someone's deciding whether to show up to an event, and the flyer makes it look unreal or low-effort, that's a real issue, not a nitpick. That's fair, and it's on us to fix, not on you to stay quiet about.
That's part of why we're always looking for volunteers. Not all the work is onsite, there's plenty to do behind the scenes, from flyer design to proofreading to just giving something a second look before it goes out. If that's more your speed than a cleanup workday, we'd welcome the help.
We're not going to shame volunteers for using AI tools to get something out the door when they're doing this on their own time. But we do want flyers to feel credible, and the more hands we have, the easier that gets.
If you or any of our readers ever want in, on any of it, the door's open. And even if you don't, your comment did what it should: it told us something wasn't landing right, and we're listening.
I enjoy this newsletter and the events list, but I really wish y'all wouldn't use AI to generate flyers. It makes them look like fake events! The Holladay cleanup flyer is particularly gross.
Thank you for reading and for caring enough about our events to speak up, that matters, and I don't want that to get lost in this reply.
I want to gently push back on one thing, though. The person who made that flyer is a volunteer. They gave up their own time, with no design budget and no marketing team, to help get the word out about a cleanup that benefits everyone in this community. The flyer isn't the event, it's a small, imperfect piece of a much bigger act of care.
That said, I hear what you're actually pointing at: a flyer that looks "fake" isn't just an aesthetic complaint, it's a trust problem. If someone's deciding whether to show up to an event, and the flyer makes it look unreal or low-effort, that's a real issue, not a nitpick. That's fair, and it's on us to fix, not on you to stay quiet about.
That's part of why we're always looking for volunteers. Not all the work is onsite, there's plenty to do behind the scenes, from flyer design to proofreading to just giving something a second look before it goes out. If that's more your speed than a cleanup workday, we'd welcome the help.
We're not going to shame volunteers for using AI tools to get something out the door when they're doing this on their own time. But we do want flyers to feel credible, and the more hands we have, the easier that gets.
If you or any of our readers ever want in, on any of it, the door's open. And even if you don't, your comment did what it should: it told us something wasn't landing right, and we're listening.