RE: PSA- My Witness votes will be changing starting Dec 2nd of this year
Hi.
I have a suggestion.
I hear a lot when people are asked how they WILL help.
I am relatively new here and I would be interested to hear from the community how CAN i help. Specifically what is currently NEEDED. Then i can suggest what i CAN do for what is NEEDED. I'd like to be more helpful but I am not sure what I could do that would be the best ratio of highest impact for the society and my skills, expertise, experience and abilities.
Ok, i invested in the servers, i pay for hosting, I post some content, vote for valuable content that i see and resteem things of value in my opinion. I help others who ask questions in chat. I am not ready to do coding and scripting on the blockchain yet (or maybe never). Although I already posted some things that might help the developers to fix bugs and improve quality control.
I think it would be valuable idea to maintain a list somewhere of the current issues that need help or areas where more participation is needed. Maybe even people sending their complaints and suggestions.
I'd be willing to maintain that list by the way! Like a volunteering exchange where pleas for help are posted, moderated, sorted (to avoid multiple requests of the same thing from people who have not read the list carefully) and volunteers are connected with that list picking up tasks that they can do.
This way i think my contribution to the community could be effective.
Well, here's the thing about that approach. I'm not convinced it works in a volunteer organization. At work I can say here is what you have to do, do it, or I will stop paying you. I can't do that here because steemit is a volunteer org/community. So, my approach is to find people that are passionate about something, identify something they want to change, and the only thing they really need from me is support, encouragement and a few connections.
Managing people just doing their job is hard. Managing people that are passionate, understand a problem, and know how to fix it but need support is easy.
I have limited time and limited resources. I make a deliberate choice to maximize my time supporting highly productive people, minimize my time managing directionless people, and from the 4 months minnow support has been operating I'd say we've accomplished quite a lot under pretty challenging conditions.