Advertising for contributors
We should only advertise on the Internet for contributors to factual and factual entertainment programmes as a last resort when other research methods have been exhausted. The people who reply are self-selecting and may seek to appear regularly as "serial guests". We need to screen out those who are unsuitable or dishonest and those prone to exaggeration.
Any proposal to use a chat room or message board to find contributors must be referred, like other forms of advertising, to the relevant Interactive Executive Editor. See Section 3: Accuracy of the Editorial Guidelines.