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]

Hi!

I like the 'one suggestion per post' idea.

I think maybe we should also have a weekly or weekly-ish 'things I did' post where people can share a thing or things that they feel activist-ish-ly accomplished about, similar to awesomeers, but less frequent so people can pick and choose whatever they think is the best example. But I'm not certain; that sort of thing seems likely to slide sideways of the intent. I guess I would like to hear from more people?

Also, 'expend physical spoons' should be on the list at least for outside the house things (and some inside, I guess, if someone posted, like, gardening or electrical tips or an ice bucket thing) - some kind of estimate of distance traveled; of time to be spent walking, rolling, standing, sitting, exercising; and of motor skills that need to be used or worked around. Just at a rough cut. I am not expert on the topic, but it would seem odd to account for mental and social energy without including the physical.

I have no clue how tagging would work.

[the_rck]

I like the idea of a posting template and of limiting the number of items per post. Seeing too many things all at once can mean that I can't actually address any of them. This applies in low stress communities like whatwasthatbook, so I suspect I'd get overwhelmed here where posts have real world emotional impact and the outcomes can affect people's lives.

I'd like a line on the template for people to add extra information that doesn't fit anywhere else. For example, I saw someone on LJ post that they couldn't go to a particular protest but would like to sponsor someone else who wanted to go but couldn't afford it.

I'd like a sticky post where people can comment with useful links they find. I'd be willing to monitor such a post and sort and compile the links so that people could find them more easily. I'd be surprised if it took more than half an hour to an hour a day, and most days I have more time than that for such things.

[untonuggan]

hey! i just saw this after making a post (whoops!). so if there is a template format maybe it can go in a sticky post?