We had a productive meeting today...getting back on the ball as far as these meetings go.

Todays "agenda" was laid out here...https://steemit.com/informationwar/@stevescoins/informationwar-discord-meeting-4-28

Participants

@stevescoins
@WakeUpND
@TruthForce
@gregorypatrick
@dwinblood
@richq11
@metalmag25
@Journey
@insanityisfree
@thoughts-in-time

Points raised that were not on the agenda

• the meetings are designed to be about the best way to organize and use the tag

• its kind of a network for communicating between "truther" steemers ;>

• check out the "#links-to-older-summary-posts" channel; it will give you a good idea of what the weekly meetings are abbout

• "#general" has voice, the meeting doesn't ;>. this helps stay focused

• I'll be doing a summary post of all the relevant points...usually "#general" is not recorded unless we are doing a podcast

• @insanityisfree put together a banner for possible IW use

• @truthforce spoke with @ausbitbank and @aggroed a bit last week. Aggroed gave us a 500 SP delegation, and ausbitbank increased his delegation from 2,000 to 3,000. @V4vapid also has joined our discord and has popped in and out a few times, spoke with him weeks ago. Just more put out the information on "how you can help" with this post https://steemit.com/informationwar/@truthforce/you-can-make-a-difference-join-the-informationwar-and-help-support-others-today

• InformationWar Contributing Writers: Roll Call Part 4 - UPDATED ...

• Checking with new IW folk's understanding of what the tag is about...IW's for spreading detailed truths which counter false MSM narratives...our message is on point!

Meeting

• Discussion point ONE - Does holding the meeting in a separate channel seem to work?
  It looks like it did...there was no confusion in the "#general" channel.

• Discussion point TWO - disorganization of previous meetings
  We had 10 people in the meeting. Some things helped keep us mostly on track
  -having an agenda
  -having a moderator
  -the moderator kept moving back to point
  -having the meeting in a separate channel, allowing for normal chat in "#general"

• discussion point THREE -curation issues

-we have to set an threshold of daily number of posts that could be curated by the trail to avoid spam and to ensure quality

-what we do is to have a general floor for the voting power we use

-its up to the individual curator, we have to trust curators to do the right thing in general
giving curators discretion allows a better range of curation than just giving them a set of rules

-I think the general guidelines on the curation we all agreed to basically makes sense. We check to make sure we never go below 85% in total. If we are at 90% and want to curate a bit just use less voting power.

-if you post multiple times a day on the IW tag some of them might not be voted fo; 4 or 5 a day is overdoing it, 4 or 5 qa week is cool

-we arent going to be able to curate everybody that uses the tag, so we have to decide on the best ways to curate

-And, if all of the curators are busy there will be times where nothing is curated for a day.

-We now have 5 curators total vs the 3 we had in the past

-Other thing, as no curator speaks spanish, @metalmag25 will from time to time propose some spanish IW related posts for curation in the "#postpromotion" channel

• discussion point FOUR - ways for new steemers/low SP steemers to help out

-I do suggest that new/low SP steemers focus on building their own SP first!

-resteems and suggestions on "#postpromotion" are ways for low SP folks to contribute...you can suggest posts other than your own here

-Invite other Steemers you see with similar interests to join us

-And join the curation trail!

Election2018

Maybe to make it easier we should do a little promo on good candidates we find and use both the IW and Election 2018 tags

It is voluntary. Those who want to participate are welcome. My suggestion was we pick states and try to find out who the "establishment" (business as usual candidates are) and thus not worthy of a vote (for those that vote) and point out candidates that seem more aligned with freedom and true representation

Election2018 channel might be helpful for us to gather and post people we find
"#election2018" is now a channel on the InformationWar Discord server" : @dwinblood is the admin

Tasks for me

• explanation of discord channels
• recognize current delegators, we have some new backing!

what are the items we need to set for next week's agenda?

should I also publish unedited chat log in addition to summary post?

Fishing for whales

and remember, there is a channel set aside... "#weekly-meeting-agenda-suggestions" ...to add suggestions at any time

Later there will be a big post with where everyone is on other social media

speaking of social media, we do have about 20 social media account linked to the @informationwar account; we need to start thining about ways to use that

Definitely invite other people to the discord-
A lot easier to get friendly with people by talking through voice chat/text

If you are going to invite people via their posts, it's good to leave a comment about their post specifically and segue into it.

BEYOND CURATION, otherwise we are spamming...which is another reason we should TRY to use the relevance filed in the comment template