Quick thought re: activities

[randomling]

How about something like a one-activity-per-post system?

For example:
Suggested activity: Sign this petition / donate to this cause/fundraiser / submit an article(/story/poem/piece of art/wevs) to X submission call / attend X event / whatever

Possibly followed by the submitter filling in a short form, like:
Link:
Location: (for meatspace events)
Time estimate: (5 minutes, an evening, whatever) (Possibly we could have a classification system, something like: short, under 10 mins, medium, under an hour, long, under a day, very long, something that takes sustained effort over days or weeks?)
Deadline: (eg petitions and fundraisers are likely to have a closing date)
Does this require me to: leave the house?, spend money?, expend mental spoons (eg: writing something)?, expend social spoons (eg making a phone call, show up in a chatroom)?, make a decision (eg how much to donate)?, reveal personal information (eg petitions sometimes require full name and postal/zip code)?

Mods could then show up and tag submissions depending on the contents of the form or perhaps our own research if some questions are left unanswered. Maybe that could be a once-a-day thing? Then we'd have a nice searchable archive of things-to-do.

(For actions with a deadline, we could tag them "current" and "deadline" or something, and have a mod scroll through current+deadline things every now and then to take "current" off the ones that have expired.)

Brainstorming questions:
* Does this seem like a good idea?
* How would you modify it to work better?
* What other tags might we add to make the list more accessible?
* How to organise tag moderation so that tag-modding is also reasonably accessible?

Answer any, all or none - just saying hi is fine!

Comments

[alatefeline]

*nods* Whereas I have pretty solid physical endurance *before* I interact with humans for the day, but lose my physical as well as mental equilibrium with just a few minutes to a half hour in an unfamiliar crowd, even at events I like. So I can about handle intros and 'now let's get to work' on a project like cleaning or moving things, but a sit-down meet and greet chit-chat with strangers would be literally impossible without extensive pre-planning (e.g. meeting some of them one on one so they aren't all strangers). At any kind of large gathering, I have to periodically check out and sit behind closed doors for awhile. Yet long walks by myself aren't a problem. (Except when they are.) Also, not that this is likely to matter, I can cross busy streets fine by myself, but *not* simultaneously *with* other people, because I can only track the movement of the vehicles or the pedestrians, not both. ...Autism is weird.

...I'll defer to you and others on physical activity descriptions, then.

[randomling]

♥ I definitely think we need to hear from a number of people re: physical spoons because my physical spoon levels are not the same as everyone!

I thought your suggestions for physical-spoons things were really good - sorry, I felt a wee bit defensive because I was embarrassed I hadn't thought of all those things myself. (Largely because of my own physical restrictions!)

Autism IS weird. I have a bit of a different symptom-set but... yeah it can make things complicated!

Also I didn't say above, I really like the weekly check-in idea. Let's do it!

[alatefeline]

I think that maybe we should be a pro-awkwardness community. As in, 'We are going to fuck up in the course of our extended group conversation, and then we are going to take a deep breath and try to do better. AND THAT IS GOOOOOOD. Let us do an awkward happydance in our various ways."

Analysis: I KNOW I am going to say something that is not-good at some point. I'm prepared to forgive anyone who unintentionally says something not-good at me, provided they own it if and when I point it out. I also want to dig down and own that I have absurd amounts of privilege as an employed, mostly-invisibly neurodivergent, white, cis-passing person (among other things) so I will likely not be the first to know if there is a really problematic *trend* among individually minor things that people say or omit, and I need to check myself regularly to not talk over people. (People? Peoplefolk with more-informed thoughts than mine on the physical spoons thing? You don't gotta, but I'd love to hear from you.) And pointing out gaps can be a bit embarrassing, but it beats not doing it, so I'm in favor.

Which comes down to saying: I know you felt embarrassed and I feel a little odd too but I think you are doing an awesome job and I *don't* think you made a horrible blunder, I think you had a draft in progress and things got added because it wasn't perfect which it isn't supposed to be because it's a draft ... *breathes* ... but there could well be more-informed opinions than mine and this is why community is a *thing* ... !

Take care. Seriously, do a taking-care-thing if you can and wanna. <3

[alatefeline]

Argh I'm so sorry that came out sounding advice-y I'm so sorry. *facepalms*

[randomling]

♥ It's all good!

[alatefeline]

Okay. *breathes*

<3

[randomling]

♥

I think a pro-awkwardness community would be great. We're all going to make mistakes at some point, and you're right, owning them and talking about it is better (and I think less likely to induce burnout) than Drama and people walking out in a huff! Or indeed everyone staying silent. I don't like Atmospheres of Silent Resentment much either. XD

Thank you for saying you don't think I made a horrible blunder! It was definitely an in-progress thing and I asked for comments because I posted it at about 2am and I knew I wasn't covering everything, I just had an IDEA! and wanted to get it out there for discussion...

My self-care thing was sleep, which isn't going that well at the moment, and now I'm going to answer a few more comments and then go back to my hidden-objects game, I think. :D

[alatefeline]

<3