Potential index posts?
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spoonlessactivistsI’ve been thinking that it would be useful to have a central post (possibly a sticky post?) for people to leave comments with links that aren’t immediate action things or that go to somewhere that has a lot of different things going on or to somewhere that features information that will be useful long term. Someone would then compiled submitted links, sorting them by type (more on that below).
My assumption is that keeping up with submitted links wouldn’t take a lot of time at any one time, so I’m willing to undertake the task. If it gets to be too much, I’ll ask for help, but this is the sort of thing that I know I can do.
Would such a post work better as a sticky or as a weekly linkspam? Or, heaven help me, both?
Right now, I’m thinking of the following categories, but others might come up, and some might need to be collapsed together. I have no idea if this categorization scheme would make sense to anyone but me, so please let me know what you think.
Sibling communities. Right now, I only havethisfinecrew, but I haven’t looked anywhere but on my reading list, so I wouldn’t see most such things.
Linkspam posts/blogs that frequently post political linkspams or linkspams that include political links among other stuff. A good example of the former is this post at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2016/11/getting-involved/ That’s not a site that does political stuff often, so linking to the whole site wouldn’t make sense. Example of the latter areumadoshi or conuly
Individual blogs that often have political content and/or suggestions for action. I’m thinking of folks liketwistedchick here.
Useful articles/sites. Things like sites offering phone scripts and the .gov sites for looking up contact information for elected officials and like http://www.volunteermatch.org/
Inspirational posts/posts talking about long term actions. Some of these will be the sort of thing that might cheer one up, and some won’t, so I’d like a better label than inspirational. I’d like something that could encompass this angry but determined tumblr post: http://heavenscalyx.tumblr.com/post/153223785731/last-wednesday-we-woke-up-to-a-nightmare-one-of and recent somewhat grim posts at Stonekettle Station: http://www.stonekettle.com/ and this more directly inspirational LJ post: http://mrissa.livejournal.com/982054.html
Fun/cute/relaxing stuff for when it’s all too overwhelming. I don’t have much here, but I suspect that we could come up with something more than just zooborns.com
Satire. Because, sometimes, you have to laugh in order not to cry. Mostly, what I’ve got there is The Daily Show and the shows of various Daily Show alumni. Has anyone compiled all of the Biden meme stuff?
I’m not sure what order to put these in or what order to put the links in within each category. Alphabetical is generally easy, but may not be the most helpful. I think a cut tag for each category might help. What do you think? Would it make sense to sort by type within each category? To sort by date added?
How much information is needed for each link? Generally speaking, that’s the part that’s likely to take the most time/work for the compiler, but I think it’s pretty crucial. I definitely don’t want anyone clicking on a link that’s angry/depressing without knowing that that’s what it will be, and each link needs enough so that people scanning the list can find what they’re looking for even if they don’t know the site name/author.
I thought about trying to mine linkspams in addition to linking them, but I can’t promise that I’d reliably have the time/energy to do that. If anybody else wants to take that on, I think it could be helpful.
I’m now also thinking that a sticky post index to some or all posts in the community might also be useful, but tags will cover that to some extent, so is that something we might need/want? If we do, would it be for all posts or just for some? I think it would be most useful for things that don’t have expiration dates. If we do want it, is anyone up to taking on the job?
My assumption is that keeping up with submitted links wouldn’t take a lot of time at any one time, so I’m willing to undertake the task. If it gets to be too much, I’ll ask for help, but this is the sort of thing that I know I can do.
Would such a post work better as a sticky or as a weekly linkspam? Or, heaven help me, both?
Right now, I’m thinking of the following categories, but others might come up, and some might need to be collapsed together. I have no idea if this categorization scheme would make sense to anyone but me, so please let me know what you think.
Sibling communities. Right now, I only have
thisfinecrew, but I haven’t looked anywhere but on my reading list, so I wouldn’t see most such things.Linkspam posts/blogs that frequently post political linkspams or linkspams that include political links among other stuff. A good example of the former is this post at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books: http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2016/11/getting-involved/ That’s not a site that does political stuff often, so linking to the whole site wouldn’t make sense. Example of the latter are
umadoshi or conulyIndividual blogs that often have political content and/or suggestions for action. I’m thinking of folks like
twistedchick here.Useful articles/sites. Things like sites offering phone scripts and the .gov sites for looking up contact information for elected officials and like http://www.volunteermatch.org/
Inspirational posts/posts talking about long term actions. Some of these will be the sort of thing that might cheer one up, and some won’t, so I’d like a better label than inspirational. I’d like something that could encompass this angry but determined tumblr post: http://heavenscalyx.tumblr.com/post/153223785731/last-wednesday-we-woke-up-to-a-nightmare-one-of and recent somewhat grim posts at Stonekettle Station: http://www.stonekettle.com/ and this more directly inspirational LJ post: http://mrissa.livejournal.com/982054.html
Fun/cute/relaxing stuff for when it’s all too overwhelming. I don’t have much here, but I suspect that we could come up with something more than just zooborns.com
Satire. Because, sometimes, you have to laugh in order not to cry. Mostly, what I’ve got there is The Daily Show and the shows of various Daily Show alumni. Has anyone compiled all of the Biden meme stuff?
I’m not sure what order to put these in or what order to put the links in within each category. Alphabetical is generally easy, but may not be the most helpful. I think a cut tag for each category might help. What do you think? Would it make sense to sort by type within each category? To sort by date added?
How much information is needed for each link? Generally speaking, that’s the part that’s likely to take the most time/work for the compiler, but I think it’s pretty crucial. I definitely don’t want anyone clicking on a link that’s angry/depressing without knowing that that’s what it will be, and each link needs enough so that people scanning the list can find what they’re looking for even if they don’t know the site name/author.
I thought about trying to mine linkspams in addition to linking them, but I can’t promise that I’d reliably have the time/energy to do that. If anybody else wants to take that on, I think it could be helpful.
I’m now also thinking that a sticky post index to some or all posts in the community might also be useful, but tags will cover that to some extent, so is that something we might need/want? If we do, would it be for all posts or just for some? I think it would be most useful for things that don’t have expiration dates. If we do want it, is anyone up to taking on the job?
