Making the World Better – we need your Help

An appeal to the members at our Reddit sub

“Making the SlowlyApp sub a Better Place ? Yes, but — We need your participation too.”

The text on this post was originally in a Topic at the Slowly app Reddit sub. It was posted on May 28, and at that time I had been actively participating there for about a month.

Since discovering it, via a suggestion from a pen pal friend, it was clear that it had great potential and content — although sometimes it took some digging and separating the wheat from the chaff.

Fast Forward to August, 2020; 3 months later and I just searched for the topic, to re-post it with some updates. I am now an active moderator in the sub, and would like to encourage user's participation on it too.

More participation, a nice social climate builds communities were we feel attracted to join in and spend time, write and give our views, etc.

Original Post Follows

Originally posted as a comment in another topic -– but this is Top Level Important and I want to bring it to light, discussion.

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-littleGhost has added wonderful content.

Very nice work as usual, dear colleague. :)

Sadly no replies – yet. I find these really expand a topic, engage the author, bring more curious people and invite more comments.

Wish people would recognize that — the is not TV, you need to add a contribution, and recognize the people already doing it.

A simple comment and thank you means a lot more than an Up Vote, imo, although this topic already has a number of them.

On Positive Feedback :

Being fairly new on actively using Reddit, the up and down voting things are the subject of some reflection for me; in some cases, I have some critical thoughts regarding that.

Positive reinforcement is what I believe is called for – a tap in the back a wattaBoy or watttaGirl short comment does make an author feel their effort is appreciated.

[ and the same applies to letters — you won't keep a good, deep writer for long unless you ENGAGE too ]

I have a theory that a lot comes from the way people see and use this site, or the Slowly app itself. It is my belief that both work optimally in a pc class device – not on a mobile.

Algorithms shape other places :

On FB, seeing Likes is maybe 10 times more common than even a one word reply. AND — their algorithms ARE watching that, a post will be displayed to maybe 10 people, and if there's not enough reaction, not to any more of your 200 “Friends” there.

A “Like” is a one touch on screen for a mobile user. It's more work, on a cumbersome touch screen keyboard, to provide a meaningful response.

I got sick and tired, of that manipulation and people not seeing my content. So, I left. Stopped posting there.

This Sub has great potential — there's nothing like it on the Net at the moment, as a live discussion and info resource for Slowly users.

Let's make this better.

Please consider this. I am volunteering for Moderator here, and this is my personal view of what a leadership position entails. The most important part, I believe, being Community Building, on a day to day basis.

Thank you, Ghost. Well done. :)

** And an Update and Repost, August 23, 2020 :

This topic was originally posted on May 28, 2020. At the time, I had volunteered to help and Moderate the sub.

Time passed, by July 14th or so I got a direct message with a surprise offer — to consider accepting that position. Which I had assumed was not going to happen, long before then.

Those who know me and who I chat with were dismayed in early June when I posted a note saying I had given up on my volunteering offer. Since a month had passed and no reply at all came from the sub's founder and at the time, the main moderator.

Most of the month of June I didn't post or even visit here much. And the sub's state was dismaying.

Your participation builds a nice social climate. We need you.

We CAN make the world a better place, but we need your help and participation. Please consider those points. Thank you !

Thank you for reading, any comments are most welcome.

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