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I was just reading over a discussion I had years back with guinevak about a possible Phone Anxiety Hotline where we could hold each other's hands through making important phone calls to representatives or other activism-related things. (Or indeed any other phone calls that are necessary!)

I was thinking this could be a Discord server or Telegram group maybe. Any interest in this at all?

Hey all.

My spoons have taken a serious nosedive the last week or so, not sure why except depression is continuing to eat my head.

Would someone be up for a) volunteering to join me as an admin for the comm and b) maybe making and looking after a tag-modding sign-up post so we can get the ball rolling there? (I'm thinking of maybe a weekly rota with one person per day, plus people volunteering to cover in an emergency if possible, but if someone can think of a better way of running it please go ahead.)

a) and b) don't have to be the same person, though I think it will also make sense for tag mods to be admins (it makes sense for tagging to be admin-only, I think, 'cause that will make curating easier). In fact a few people signing up to be comm admins would be fantastic. I'm up to making people admins, just monitoring the tag-modding post and keeping control of that feels like too much right now. :/

Thanks, folks.

I'm thinking about tagging posts - specifically the action-suggestion posts that we've already started generating (yay!).

I think we need a) a tagging scheme and b) a roster of people/mods who would be willing to tag entries. For this purpose I think it might make sense to restrict tagging to mods only - that way we can curate the tags a bit more easily.

So:

a) Tagging scheme
I'm thinking that we could have, for example, tags like:
req: personal info
req: mental
req: physical

location: wherever (obviously for in-person events these things will be probably town-specific, which means we might end up with quite a few if the place gets busy, but we have a 1000-tag limit so we don't need to worry too much about proliferation yet)

current for things that either don't have a deadline or haven't passed it yet

Plus an "action" tag just to differentiate those posts from... discussion posts like this, people's questions, general advice, etc.

Any other thoughts on what tags we might use?

b) Tagging mods

I think that if we go with my method here, we'd be looking at two tasks for tag mods

- go through the new/untagged posts and adding appropriate tags, maybe once a day
- go through the "current" tag and check for stuff that's passed its deadline, expired, the link is now broken, whatever - probably less often than daily, once a week might be fine for this?

So the question here is who'd be willing to do that? If you don't know how to do it technically I'd be happy to describe or hop on IM to explain! (I'm not generally up for Skype or other voice or video calls at the moment, sorry.)

ETA: I'm an idiot! I didn't mean that one person has to do the tag-modding every day for the rest of time! I'm looking for a group of us who can do the modding and hopefully cover for each other in times of sickness/exhaustion/overwhelm/etc so we are each only doing one every few days. (Hopefully less potential for burnout that way.)

Thanks folks!

Hi! I'm Lee, and this is Spoonless Activists.

We're a community for anyone who wants to do something about this world we're in, something to make it a better, more humane place - but is short on resources. Low spoons? Not much cash? Not much time? I wish I could say "we've got you", but at this stage we've got a small collection of ideas and a willingness to keep muddling through.

As we develop our plans and strategies, I'll update this post.

Thoughts? Ideas? Drop them in the comments below.

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