Kevin's Watch

The perils of being "always online."

--A

We're ticking along nicely so far this month. Keep up the post-rate (eeewh! )!

I'm closing in on becoming a 'Postasorus'. I feel my neck extending, a tail extruding and the accelerated growth of the many extra prehensile arms with the multitude of scaly fingers I'll need to ascend to the level of a Ghurner

u.

And there I was wondering how saurians are supposed to post...

--A

don't you ever say
I just walked away
I still want you...

Is it me or is it slowing down again?

It has been a quiet month. Doesn't feel particularly ominous - I know at least a couple of our more prolific people are busy with work and such. Maybe next month will have more activity.

It does seem a bit quieter again alright.

Like Sorus said some people are busy and don't have as much time to post right now. On the other hand, we have Jenn back blathering, so that'll surely help!

u.

Spring in the northern hemisphere is usually a quiet time on the Watch.

--A

hard to post after a ten hour work day where i am by myself with 30 odd inmates and no c/o.

sorry i have failed you.

You haven't failed anyone. Hope your work situation gets better soon.

Sorus wrote:You haven't failed anyone. Hope your work situation gets better soon.

thanks. me too.

Sorus is too kind. We are all failures here.

--A

Avatar wrote:Sorus is too kind. We are all failures here.

--A

Avatar wrote:Sorus is too kind. We are all failures here.

--A

Hey now. I resemble that remark.

Nonsense. Anyway, I was being funny. The following is my personal measure of anybodies success:

SUCCESS

To laugh often and much
to win the respect of intelligent people
and affection of children; to earn the
appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best
in others; to leave the world a bit
better, whether by a healthy child
a garden patch or redeemed
social condition; to know even
one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.


-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of Dreams, and Redeeming Them
Why we celebrate Null Day →
Whither the Watch? Not on our Watch.
Posted on 11:24 PM CDT on Wednesday, May 6 by Sgt.Null
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It is, of course, not enough just to catalog the way that social and economic mores are imperiling the Watch dream.

We have to stop it.

That will, of course, take a movement, since, on our own, we tend to respond to the confrontation of so much that is wrong with a disengagement, what Avatar calls the axiom that “powerlessness also corrupts”

But, together, we could have what Camerman Jenn calls an ‘Army of volunteers prepared to battle for the common cause of reclaiming the Watch Dream'.

That will take changes to the way the system works, maybe with mandatory posting, so that un-elected Moderators would know with some certainty that they would face the wrath of the entire Watch if they fail to vote the interests of most Members, and certainly with White Gold Dollar finance reform. We likely need to rethink the role of Thoolah and there is certainly evidence that posting rules have outlived their usefulness. There is evidence that members of Linden's Army tune out the opinions of average Members when voting on bannings, especially when powerful White Board Survivor's interests get engaged. But they would not–they could not–if we change the terms of engagement.

Shifting these terms of engagement could result in real changes in the distributional policies we pursue, including reductions in store items so that we can reinvest in infrastructure and opportunity, what then candidate Lord Zombiac described as “fighting to put the Watch Dream within reach for every Member…for what folks in these threads have been spending on the Think Tank war, we could be giving excess Hit Points to nearly every Watch Member, hiring new elementaryModerators, and making the Close more enticing for Members”. But we are not. Yet. And that has to change. Dread Poet Jethro knew that “to amass Moderator power without regard to our intellectual capacity would be to defend ourselves against one kind of disaster by inviting another”. Another case of a Poet who got it right.

And we need new posting policies. Really. Our posting policies are the opposite of what Members really want, what some Moderators consider “the most political law in the world wide web”. We need new Token policies, to start, and to eliminate the earnings cap on White Gold Dollars. Achieving some victories like that could, perhaps, get more Members to see how much Token policies matter, to build momentum for even bigger earnings.

Truly, there is so much that needs to be fixed that you can sort of take your pick about where we start, in terms of substantive policy changes.

What is even more important is the strategy. That is why, when I heard about this piece on Facebook during an early morning walkabout, I was struck by the quote at the very end.

"It is going to take a revolution."

But isn’t a dream worth fighting for?

Sgt.Null

I think we are facing a Null Resurgence huh?

--A

Avatar wrote:I think we are facing a Null Resurgence huh?

--A

Look Upon My Works and Despair

Avatar wrote:Spring in the northern hemisphere is usually a quiet time on the Watch.

--A

Wonder why that is? I know that I did contribute to the slowdown. Partly due to Passover, but more due to a crazy work schedule in the past several weeks. Hoping things will slow down soon. I'm exhausted.

People doing stuff and things; vacation, etc. That's what it usually is in WoW, anyway.