RE: The WOX Travel Contest will no longer be held
which, by the way, you can and should explain here - that is my understanding of openness here on the platform
It is precisely because of the fact that I am trying to remain open that I explained the reasons for the termination of the contest. Now I regret it a little, maybe it would have been better to quietly go into the shadows. Most of them took it as the fact that I am putting everyone in one row without exception. In fact, it is not. I would be happy to communicate with those russians who would clearly explain their negative attitude towards the war. But no one does this.
Some of my decisions and statements are dictated by the emotional state I had at the time of writing the post. Recently, a rocket hit a house in Lviv, which I passed by every day for five years. There, people I knew died in their beds in the middle of the night. Then the rocket hit a residential building in Kryvyi Rih. Tomorrow a rocket will hit somewhere again and someone will die. Dead soldiers are brought to our city every day. The city is small, so familiar names often come across. Emotions often take over.
Many people sympathized with my decision, but most silently condemned it. Of course, it's better to keep my emotions to myself, but I don't always manage to do that.
If you look at the content in the Ukrainian community, you can see that the war is often mentioned there. antorv presented her new book in Odessa, but was forced to flee from an attack by drones. strecoza lives in Kryvyi Rih, so the rocket attack affected people she knows. One may get the impression that Ukrainians are constantly trying to evoke sympathy. I think many people are tired of it. But we just write about our everyday experiences. So I think it's better for us to stay with our content in our local community.
But don't stop talking to each other! Don't stop respecting each other.
It is very difficult now. If russian society would at least show a little bit that they are against the extermination of Ukrainians. Are they afraid? Not a single russian on the platform during the year and a half of the war addressed any of the Ukrainians privately in Discord or Telegram and said that he was against murder and violence. This is disappointing.
However, I am happy to communicate with the rest of the world.
I don't think you should dive into your local community.... Again, of course, it's your decision alone.
I sometimes follow posts in the Ukrainian community - of course it is a bit more time-consuming, sometimes actually less relevant for me. But I am aware that you are all affected by what is happening in your country. And many other people on the Steem too, of course. But what can they say to alleviate your situation...? If we are honest: nothing. So that's probably why they keep quiet...
Are you in contact with @gor671? We miss him, he probably also lives in a disputed area... I hope he is doing reasonably well!
@o1eh - this war will end. Not thanks to you or me, not thanks to Europe or the US, not thanks to sudden Russian insights... But it will end. Then it will be important how you got through the hard time yourself: full of hate or full of hope ;-))
No, unfortunately he never joined our Telegram chat, so I don't have his contacts. I don't know why he stopped being active.
You are probably right. But under the current conditions, I cannot pretend that nothing is happening, smile and give prizes to participants from Russia. So I removed this inconvenience from my activity on Steemit. However, it was necessary to do it without explaining the reasons, because now many people think that I drink coffee from the skulls of Russians and eat their babies :)
In general, I think nothing will change in my activity on Steemit, only there will be no contests. But there will be more comments. This is how I plan to interact with authors as a moderator.