We’ve all got to make the best of the hand we’re dealt. I try to keep the attention on the positive here, because I feel we currently need it more than ever, but I won’t act like I’m immune to the negative myself. I think it’s crucial we make it ok for people to share problems and the ways they’ve found to get help with things.
Especially here, we’re building something new, and I want it to be a happy and helpful place. A supportive net culture feels rare these days and I want to foster it all I can.
There’s commenters I don’t see come by anymore and I feel they got bored with me. Someone new will post and get way more views than my stuff. There’s always something.
Whups, I missed this the first time around, but I mutht say (hah, Ed Grimley moment)-- a community in which all content starts with a wonderful owl picture (whether its followed by a bunch of interesting facts or not) is both amazing to me, yet also rife with the potential for members / subscribers to leak out the door if they’re not personally engaged, wildlife fans, or major owl-fanciers themselves. Something like that, I suspect.
But anyway yeah, I think I GET you about the psychological competition-thing, even if we tend to manufacture it mainly inside our punkin’ ol’ heads. Personally I don’t really have that problem across the Lemmysphere, but (and some may burn me at the stake for this) I still do post to Reddit sometimes, and it can be completely hit-or-miss, even if (IMO of course) I’ve found something cool and unique that completely suits a sub, then it gets outcompeted by a dang ol’ meme, or just plain ignored. Altho TBF I think there’s a post-threshold in most subs, in that one must #1 be subscribed, #2 have sufficient comment karma, and #3 have adequate post karma. Also, there might be a moderator-approval queue!
Oh rabbits, I set out here to respond to your direct comment, but in checking the full comment chain, got fasctinated by an earlier one. Not to mention, it seems like your ORIGINAL comment was directly about vote-share trades, or something like that?
Sorry, A6789 (oof, or do you have a preferred handle?), but I’ll try to get back to the interesting things you pointed out just above, and maybe your original concept. 😅
We’ve all got to make the best of the hand we’re dealt. I try to keep the attention on the positive here, because I feel we currently need it more than ever, but I won’t act like I’m immune to the negative myself. I think it’s crucial we make it ok for people to share problems and the ways they’ve found to get help with things.
Especially here, we’re building something new, and I want it to be a happy and helpful place. A supportive net culture feels rare these days and I want to foster it all I can.
Whups, I missed this the first time around, but I mutht say (hah, Ed Grimley moment)-- a community in which all content starts with a wonderful owl picture (whether its followed by a bunch of interesting facts or not) is both amazing to me, yet also rife with the potential for members / subscribers to leak out the door if they’re not personally engaged, wildlife fans, or major owl-fanciers themselves. Something like that, I suspect.
But anyway yeah, I think I GET you about the psychological competition-thing, even if we tend to manufacture it mainly inside our punkin’ ol’ heads. Personally I don’t really have that problem across the Lemmysphere, but (and some may burn me at the stake for this) I still do post to Reddit sometimes, and it can be completely hit-or-miss, even if (IMO of course) I’ve found something cool and unique that completely suits a sub, then it gets outcompeted by a dang ol’ meme, or just plain ignored. Altho TBF I think there’s a post-threshold in most subs, in that one must #1 be subscribed, #2 have sufficient comment karma, and #3 have adequate post karma. Also, there might be a moderator-approval queue!
Oh rabbits, I set out here to respond to your direct comment, but in checking the full comment chain, got fasctinated by an earlier one. Not to mention, it seems like your ORIGINAL comment was directly about vote-share trades, or something like that?
Sorry, A6789 (oof, or do you have a preferred handle?), but I’ll try to get back to the interesting things you pointed out just above, and maybe your original concept. 😅
Sorry sorry!