RE: How Do We Defend What We Value While Keeping Things Fun?
Cool shirt! I want a unicorn pooping rainbows and lucky charms. Looking forward to when they're available. :)
I admit I have been wondering what your take on this topic would be. The question of yours about "If everyone in the community did this, would it be harmful or helpful for the community?" echoed in my head as I watched the carnival. I really wanted to know whether sock puppets would be good or bad for the community, but was afraid to ask something so simple. It bothered me that I was afraid to ask. So I did ask, but chose an awkward situation and was incoherent.
Reporters are the members of society who are not afraid to be coherent. The professionalism they bring to directness is invaluable (@ats-david, you're my hero). I will never be a reporter; I depend on them to ease my concerns as a non-dev minnow. I need things to be talked about and for those who understand to weigh in with perspectives I am incapable of arriving at on my own, brilliant though I am. So thank you for answering my question without my having to ask.
BTW, I'm getting quite active in projectnewbie and will be sharing your reputation advice post regularly with new kids as a primer in steem-etiquette. It rules. Thanks again.
Thanks @pulpably. :)
I'm still working through this also, which is why I'm asking more questions than I am giving answers. If everyone did it, it could be harmful... but taken to an extreme, that could be said about almost any post or weekly report or whatever. I think community norms are based on emergent properties, and they change over time. What's valued today, may be discouraged tomorrow and vice versa. They key, I think, is staying flexible and kind. Hopefully we can all learn some NVC as well.
A lot of people look to you as an example and so it's just plain awesome that you're willing to be publicly tentative and advise kindness and flexibility. Even once we have someone in the role @steemship asked for, it will help if everyone refrains entirely from war cries and witch burning. Let's not be facebook ;P
Thank you, sincerely. That's quite a complement, and I really do appreciate it. Indeed, let's not be Facebook. Let us evolve.