RE: ---- There Is No Spoon, Only A Hard Fork - A Little Psychological Breakdown----
I would like to say there is a balance needed. Complete disengagement from something that is stressful is t always the answer.
This is a great article for people that flip out when something goes wrong. But I have to say that the negative feedback is something that protects a users experience. Of course there should be balance. Steemit is product designed to be used. The only really figurehead that an average user can express discontent to is witnesses. So they are by default kind of the complaint department. Not that all complaints are good and that people don’t overreact.
My point is that if something goes wrong with a product, there has to be a way for people to voice there frustration, which is naturally a little heated. Those that represent the product, in this case are kind of the witnesses, need to be able to calmly listen to and assess each case.
I understand this article and I love the graphs but I feel better communication and engagement will produce healthier outcomes although it is important to take a break, especially if your so made you can’t speak without personal insults.
What I saw during this HF20 was basically a complete breakdown in communication. “Hoomans” are just so terrible at effective communications. Once the product stopped working, people didn’t know how and didn’t have simple systems in place, and chaos ensued. What happens in chaos? Us vs them. Hoomans always balance chaos with us vs them.
How do we fix and prevent this? centralized resources of information. I know, that sounds contrary to probably everything people think this platform is about but let’s use logic.
Ok is I have a news story to tell people how do do that? What’s the best way? The best way is simply to let people view the story and then discuss it. Yes that’s a pretty traditional approach because it works asl long is the information is objective. Imagine if I’m doing HF21 and I’m going to tell steemit community what to expect by releasing the info to one person, who in turn tells another and they tell two each and so on. Lol you think the information is accurate by the time the 10th person or the 1000th person has heard it? Centralized resource of information are all around us and they work fine. Ever heard of wiki or encyclopedica britannica?
Another thing that needs to fixed is the technical jargon. Normal people DON’T understand technical terms. Making posts with technical terms to the community on what’s happening does not help when most of the community is not technical. Add to this fact that you had several technical inclined prominent people on the platform all making posts about hf20. What happened was the community, who mostly isn’t technical and shouldn’t have to be, was flooded with information that in turn flooded the chats with questions and frustration. Chaos ensued and quickly became the us vs them.
Yes disengagement from stres and conflict does work and is a useful tool. I feel it’s better that there be systems in place to prevent this. So as not to be entirely critical. I’m going to offer my solution.
A call to action for all witnesses. Build a single resource of information about steemit and what the witnesss do. Or form groups and build several. Categorize yourself. Make it accessible to everyone through your steemit pages discord’s etc. make it transparent and be transparent. Don’t sell it as a service. Keep it simple but also accessible to in depth study via links to to more technical information. Keep it simple. Keep it simple. I can’t say it enough, keep it simple so that basic users can understand in steps, yes it’s possible.
Why do this? Win-win-win. You can direct simple questions asked by users to answers. You get more sleep and users get access to more information. The community as a whole will become more at ease know what’s what. Less confusion means we all do more. More time for projects instead of firefighting. Better and faster adoption of HF. If a community as whole knows what’s happening to steem you will get less backlash since the community can bring up issues ahead of time.
Sorry for this long post and I’ve sort of hijacked copes topic.
If any one has questions regarding what I envision, please contact me and I will show you how to do it. Thanks for the great article cope.
-M
im not saying disengage completely every time, but when things get heated and beyond productive there is no point. When its COUNTERproductive its not being helpful.
i agree that there needs to be a balance and the point of the article is to get people to really think about things beyone their own perspectives.
As i said im not really in for the whole tech analysis of the situation and talking more to the psychological constructs involved in any kind of conflict like this, to recognize that there is a productive and counterproductive means of interaction. if its fighting its not leading anywhere.
if there are complaints to be made that is fine, but when it turns into name calling and things of that sort , all we are doing is hindering the progress which could be made in that time.
We need to recognize that we are ALL hoomans and we make mistakes, but we are doing the best we can with what we got and where we are at. empathy compassion and understanding.