RE: EcoKnowmeek Activity: ONE MONTH ON STEEMIT, Ecoknowme Reflects on Experience so far, Lessons to other Minnows and Plans for the FUTURE!
Nice post and I'm glad to see you're getting on so well on Steemit. Seems like you've got the hang of it in no time. It's a friendly community, once you start to connect with good people. A lot of it comes down supporting people who are putting effort into doing good work. It also comes down to respecting other members and their projects and visions. The thing with this ecotrain is it's a project that alex has invested a lot of time, energy and goodwill into creating. Now, it's a new kind of publication, like steemit is new kind of platform, so the rules are still not 100% set in stone - but basically, if you're going to use the ecotrain tag and you're not officially part of the ecotrain crew, then the thing to to would be first to ask @eco-alex for his editorial approval, and if the material is suitable. Likewise, if he says it's not suitable (like he did earlier in his comment), you can go to 'edit' and change the ecotrain tag to something else. Nothing is lost. We're all new to this, and all want to get ahead in the game, but if steemit is going to work in the long run, as a force for positive change in the world, then boundaries will need to be respected. Cheers
So sorry for the error of my ways. I hope you are all enjoying yourselves and I have made the correction, Thank you for taking the time to comment and sort me out. you guys are doing many things and I hope you can continue to do more things and perhaps the doing them will be joy enough in themselves. But I do respect the direction and vision. I am just struggling to reconcile all the viewpoints I see on here from people who appreciate the freedom and lack of rules that enable a type of civil anarchy and those that would like more control and structure. Self control is what we have control over, the rest might be most easily persuaded with love. Imagine, what happens when someone uses 'ecotrain' who is not connected with, friends with and proximate too, the ecotrain crew. If I didn't have the patience and concern for your points here, I could have very easily flagged the comments that don't relate to the actual CONTENT of the post. My vision is different. Someday maybe we can all be collabing together, but interactions like this are a cold wet handshake compared to the response I have had with others on here. Just a thought. All this for a single word in the wrong box. Oh well, my mistake. A thousand pardons @stillgideon
Thanks for removing the tag and sorry for the heavy vibes and all. I was just about to delete my comment anyway, but then I saw you replied - but I can delete it if you like. Let's not get into flagging and all that.
I totally get what you're saying and what you're trying to do here on steemit. You're posting good stuff and doing good things in the real (non virtual) world by the looks of it. It is definitely a very interesting exercise in anarchy because really there aren't any fixed rules - also, unlike facebook, you can't block or report people (not that I ever did that to anyone) so it's up to people here to resolve our own issues - find ways to get along and not step on each others toes, etc...
It's tricky with the ecotrain project, because it's a kind of fairly closed group operating in an open area. There's nothing really to prevent anyone using the tag, but the way it works is based on some very clever maths and certain simple rules that alex has worked out. It's new and experimental at this stage and we're refining the way it operates as it goes along.. but I think if we keep it within the tracks, it will stand a good chance of success and it will be a good model for other similar trains. I think that's the idea.
Sorry again for the 'cold wet handshake'. I know what you mean. I feel a bit like Neil the hippie in 'the young ones' when he joins the police... here is the scene, if you don't know what I'm talking about. ..
the video was indispensable... don't get too much BBC these days. HILARIOUS! Some extras below to cool the air and laugh at myself. much love, @ecoknowme
Also, since I would like to keep this up as a teachable moment in civil anarchy, @stillgideon. would be able to do me a favour and see if someone else could like the comment below by @stortebeker? (really anyone will do) I would like to have control over my own page here, but you literally muscle me out because your steempower is strong enough to push this comment up, but my 0.01 keeps storte down there. I personally think flagging is a waste of time and if you are all happy to write things here, you should let it lock into the blockchain record. Stand by your convictions. Make an example out of me, out of this interaction. Let's show you can make mistakes or disagree and still work things out. Why neither of you thought to contact me privately, I'll never know. My birthday party herewill remain memorable, and if either of you would like to redirect some of the attention to long article I took the time to write, that would be great too. I couldn't tell if either of you Train thugs read any of it or were concerned with gang signs. (refer to Anchorman vid, to relieve seriousness)
I can't watch the videos at the moment because the internet is so limited where I am living, but I'm sure they are hilarious. (I'll watch them at the earliest opportunity. I'm working here under technologically challenging conditions, from a shed on a hill.. ) so I hope I don't come across as too serious for lack of watching something funny.
Fact is, it's been a crazy week, with a lot of conflict on all sorts of levels - some resolved, some ongoing, some somewhere in between. Some try and draw you in one way or another - some leave you standing watching helplessly as they unfold around you. Well, maybe this is all beyond the scope of this post, this thread, whatever it is. Living where I do, the threat of war is never far away. This week it got one step closer with riots in Jerusalem and terror attacks in sacred places. By comparison, what's going on here is a storm in a teacup - but at the same time situations sometimes call for action, one way or another - and there are always lessons to be learned - either from making mistakes or from acting right, responding right.
Well, I don't know if we handled this right or not.
I read your article. I liked your style of writing and energy. It's easy to read and it flows. Maybe I didn't read all of it, because it's quite long, but I read about two thirds and scanned the rest - enough to get some idea of where you're coming from, the kind of things you're working on, and the sort of trip you're having on steemit.
The funny thing about this virtual reality (that's what this is) is that it's very different for everyone. Just like in the real world. Our reality is something that we create, almost like a reflection of something we radiate from ourselves... hard to put into words, but I think you know what I mean.
I think we both got onto steemit at about the same time, but it looks like our experiences here are already quite different, although at the same time connected, and in some ways similar. I came here, having heard about it here and there, also with nothing but the 25 next to my name.. whatever that was supposed to mean and no money or steem.. whatever that was supposed to be.. and started to experiment, look around, try and figure out what's going on here. Well, it's an interesting scene isn't it. I've been fascinated by the phenomenon of facebook for a long time - and this is the same, but even more so.. like with all the curtains ripped down, the covers thrown off. It's all up front, and with the added dimension of money.
Now, whether I just got lucky, or whether I tapped into some inner guide and connectedness that was there all along, I don't know. I still don't really know about all the ins and outs of it, like you seem to do. I don't ask anyone to follow me, I don't do special offers and competitions, or go looking for people with high scores to try and get some of their success to rub off on me, or trickle down in my direction. I don't play those games in the real world and I don't play them here. Not that there's anything wrong with it, don't get me wrong. It just doesn't interest me, so why would I bother. Well, I suppose having no money and a family to support and living in a shed might be some incentive to succeed, but I have to do things on my own terms in my own way. Everybody just got to find their own way. Like a great jazz man once said 'a genius is the one who is most like himself'... I was lucky that a couple of my posts (which had nothing to do with the gang of train thugs I joined) got some big upvotes, so that jumped my number up quite quickly and got me a bit of steem power.
I think this steemit can be something more than gangs of thugs trying to score. I believe it can. I hope it can. Same as in the real world.
Peace
Just saw this opus. I dig your vibe and agreed so much with your insights and observations. The contest is my attempt to use the DIFFERENCES between the on and offline worlds in ways that stimulate unique human to human interactions. I could NEVER in my wildest dreams imagine shouting to a crowd "HEY EVERYBODY! If you write a proactive, solutions based essay on how we can solve World problems, I'll give you a piece of Silver!" to which the crowd would sip their drinks and I'd get off my chair and walk away embarrassed. The world is in our minds, online, in our relationships and the collective buzz of our human hive face to face with or without a screen. If you could do something with your computer, internet connection and happy abode where you are and you explained what you were capable of doing, from there, with those tools, to someone 15 years ago, 50 years ago, 150 years ago.... with the access to information, ability to extend compassion or ail the masses with a few keystrokes...why wouldn't you? and how would this empowerment we take for granted be viewed by people in times of Yore? It;s late, I'll sleep on it. Peace.
Bring your 'nocs to the crossroads. Wise words indeed
I don't know what I just watched but that was hilarious
here, a peace offering: https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@ecoknowme/straw-bale-clay-plastering-and-decorative-finishing-course-with-nature-jon-new-haven-east-sussex-uk-aug-sept-2017