Shake it!
It’s Sunday today and that means it’s time for a few changes on the BuddyUP server!
After a pretty slow week and some temporary burn out, I’ve decided that the BuddyUP server needs a little bit of a shakeup.
What’s going on?
Thankfully, our BOT is well on its way to getting finished! My friend underestimated what was involved and it has taken a little bit longer than he expected. It isn’t too much of a big deal since we are all getting along just fine in the general chat for now but when Buddy Request is set up and running I'm sure we will see a lot more activity.
He has told me that he wants to get it working the best he can so that there isn’t much-repeated work needed.
I’ll be updating everyone about the progress in #the-pond so make sure you look out for the @everyone messages.
Catch of the ... what?
Yes, I know. There hasn’t been any Catch of the Day members and the Catch of the Week has been forgotten about because of a low number of votes.
People had said that the feature would take a little bit of time to get going but I feel as though it would be better to save the Catch of the Week for the future, just so we can focus on other features first.
Catch of the Day is live! Starting from today, I’ll be putting a blog link into the channel daily. I will get round to everyone, and I will repeat users depending on their activity on the server. In time we will have this automated to make sure everyone is mentioned.
Hello?
Myself and @CoachJJ were talking the other day about the PYPT show on Thursday night and how we felt about speaking on the show.
We both feel like we need more practice when it comes to speaking over the mic with people on Discord. I’m sure there are other people out there that feel exactly the same!
Our plan is to get a voice channel organized on the server so that we can all hop in and chat with each other.
I think to start, it would be handy to have a few set times through the week where people can hop in and have a quick chat about ourselves so we have the chance to get to know each other. In time, we can incorporate different approaches and people can get involved with hosting and running different shows if they like.
If you want to get involved with this, drop us a message!
NEW POST PROMOTION
@NotConvinced and I were speaking yesterday and he brought to my attention that we could be doing so much more with our post promotion channel.
At the moment we just have a stream of posts being dropped in and it’s not easy to see if people are swinging by and checking out everyone's content.
Feedback and constructive criticism are just as important, if not more, than praise and compliments. Different channels have a variety of approaches when it comes to operating their post promotion channels and I think we should try to make our channel a little bit different too.
How would you guys feel about having somebody give you some criticism about your post if they didn’t think it was worth an upvote?
The idea is;
You enter the channel and you see the last post that was submitted.
Before you drop your link in, you have to decide whether the post above is good content.
If it is good content, you have to upvote it and leave a constructive comment that adds some value to the post. As well as adding the user's discord name to your link.
If you feel like it isn’t good content, you have to leave your reason why in your discord message alongside some constructive feedback about how to improve the content.
As you can probably tell, this could be an absolute disaster. People may get hurt, someone may feel discouraged and it could all blow up.
The key in criticism is not too attack when giving it and not to defend or deflect when receiving. - @NotConvinced
I won’t be going ahead with this change until I’ve had some feedback from yourselves and if it does change it will test first over the course of the week.
Right now we have a stream of posts... we could have a stream of advice and tips for anybody who comes to look at it!
Consider this, if any newcomers come along to check out the post promotion and they read up through some of the feedback that others have had to handle and deal with, they will be less likely to do it themselves. Your temporary ‘pain’ (depending on how you handle the feedback), could be a major growing point for another user in the group.
@everyone
Some of you may be new to Discord and some of the notifications might get slipped under the rug at times.
That is totally understandable.
I can only ask that you try your best to look out for the @everyone tags in the channels, these will contain information that you will need to know when using the server. As well as little updates and announcements.
I will be keeping them to a minimum so that it is only for necessary information. All I can ask is that you keep your eyes peeled, thanks!
Any feedback?
This isn’t my community. As I said to @dreemsteem last night, I wish I wasn’t classed as the owner of the community. It’s our community and we shouldn’t look up to any one person as the ‘leader’. We all have a voice, you all have a say in what happens to BuddyUP.
Over the next week, I’ll be asking a couple of people if they would like to help out with managing some of the channels and they will receive the ‘Pleco’ role.
This doesn’t mean they are any different, as I’ve said before, we are all equal.
The roles just mean they can get some permissions to manage the channels and monitor some of the messages.
Any other ideas are welcomed and encouraged, so don’t be shy and send over a direct message on Discord.
Arrrr me hearties!
If you were a part of the PYPT show on the Steemit Ramble server on Thursday night you may have heard of the movement that @dreemsteem has started.
On Thursday, we took part in a fast and furious version of the Treasure Hunt contest that @dreemsteem is hosting. This involved finding specific words in 4 different posts and using them together to make a sentence.
It was super fun! Although I ended up with a very different set of words compared to others… oops.
The event on the show was just a little taster for what the treasure hunt is really about and I urge you to head over to this post to find out more!
To give a very brief understanding so I don’t end up making some mistake and ruining it…
There will be 4-5 ‘Ports’ in the form of a post, curated by @dreemsteem.
The pirates (anybody getting involved) will head over to the Port and will give the post a read, an upvote and a comment.
Within the post will be a secret word and you will be given a clue to find it.
All the words will make up a sentence and you will win the weekly prize if you come up with the sentence first.
Regardless, the reason behind the contest isn’t about the current 5SBD prize pool. It’s about heading over to great content, getting inspired, impressed and leaving some constructive input!
In the end there is no losing, everyone is winning something. If you are a pirate and you knock up some great content, @dreemsteem will be approaching you to be a Portmaster so that your work can get some recognition too!
Make sure you follow @dreemsteem for further information and any updates regarding the contest!
That’s that!
I hope I’ve been able to clear up some things today and some hope is restored for the community. It’s a much bigger undertaken than I realised and it’s something that needs to work well for all of you guys so you will be seeing a lot more effort from my end.
I’m really enjoying the vibe we have in the server right now, there is a lot of input from people and so far there has been no trouble which is always a massive plus.
Massive thank you to everybody within the community for the support and remember what I said before, this is a community for all of us, nobody is held in high regards and everybody has a voice!
BuddyUP discord server : https://discord.gg/9b7FtHu
Steemit Ramble discord server : https://discordapp.com/invite/KYWQenB
Treasure Hunt latest link : https://steemit.com/contest/@dreemsteem/raise-the-mainsail