SteemitTalk Special Event: Community Round-table Discussion

We're All in the Same Boat

This next weekend instead of our normal Steemit Talk Podcast, we are going to host a Community Round-table Event. This will be a place for the community to discuss its goals, issues and ideally enhance understanding between the various users whether content creators, curators, witnesses, investors or employees.

I have never seen such an inclusive crypto currency, Steemit literally built the coin around a whole new asset; the community.
-@decentralizd

...there's an inherent dichotomy at work, namely that the blockchain structure is all about decentralization (APART-ness) which community is all about TOGETHER-ness. It's a nifty idea to wrap a social platform around a blockchain structure... but how does one execute that?
-@denmarkguy

We don't have to agree on everything nor like everyone, but all in all we really do have shared goals that we can work towards. As we've seen time and time again from @dantheman a major question is how to build consensus from this. I don't claim to have all the answers, but they are out there among the community as a whole.

Event Time and Place

This will take place in the normal time and place as the Steemit Talk Podcast. We will be RECORDING and REPOSTING this allowing others that couldn't make it listen, comment, etc. You will be able to interact both through voice and text during this discussion. However the text chat won't necessarily be able to be reposted, so we will try our best to verbally state points made in there.

Day and Time: Saturday, March 4th at 3pm CST (9pm GMT)

Duration: We are roughly planning on this lasting an hour and a half, but we may go longer if it is needed.

Place: Steemit Talk Podcast Discord Server in the STP Live voice channel

Our Role

This is going to be hosted on the Steemit Talk Podcast Discord Server by @sykochica and @giftedgaia. However this is not a @steemittalk podcast itself, merely a special event we are facilitating. If you think this is a good idea and potentially beneficial, please resteem this post to get the word around.

Our role will be to serve as moderators to try and keep the discussions moving along in a calm, civilized manner. If you have goal, issue, or topic ideas you would like brought up either leave it as a comment to this post or put it in the request line channel in our Discord.

We are not here to take sides short of the betterment of the community as a whole and the success of this platform. However we WILL MUTE people who do not allow others to talk or attack others directly. This is not the place to enflame things further, instead an attempt to bring people closer together and enhance understanding. Code and infrastructure can only go so far in determining if a society can thrive.


Goals

I'm a believer that everybody does what they do for a reason. With this in mind I feel there is benefit for various community members to get a better idea of where others are coming from any why an action (or non-action) was chosen. I'd love for anybody that would like to see this platform succeed join in and take part whether a minnow, dolphin, whale, or Steemit Inc employee. If there is somebody you would like to participate, ping them (using @ their name) in the comments to show your desire for them to take part.

[These goals are just the general framework we had in mind leading towards a successful community. Feel free to comment on things to refine or add here.]

With this in mind the goals of this round-table are:

  • Have a discussion to humanize each other
  • Identify communication issues or misunderstood viewpoints
  • Generate a small set of COMMON GOALS for the community itself
  • Generate a small set of COMMON ISSUES impeding these goals
  • What would be needed to nurture passion and/or reduce frustration
  • Discuss if public fighting is helpful and/or harmful
  • Induce patience: Look at things in the works to solve issues like 'topical communities' and delegated voting or already enacted user driven projects

I know there have been a lot of discussions among TONS of posts and comments that touch on various aspects related to these goals including users such as @timcliff, @snowflake, @krnel, @beanz, @smooth, @personz, @ats-david, @fidelity, @fyrstikken, @bitcoinparadise, @stellabelle and many more. (Sorry I can only list so many here off the top of my head.)

Outside of this there are projects run by people trying to improve things (such as voting or project exposure) on their own such as @steemtrail started by @instructor2121 and the Beyond Bitcoin from @officialfuzzy. These issues are important to touch on, but it's important to keep them focused towards what I think most (if not all) of us want, which is to see Steemit grow (both in users and investment) and succeed.

I'd love to hear perspective across the spectrum of people on here from minnows to whales, content creators to investors, and those in Steemit Inc like @ned, @sneak, or @picokernel.

The building of online communities has been tried before so ideally we can learn from pieces of history. @beanz recently had reposted an article that discussed the rise and fall of Digg.com that seems an applicable read. Please comment if you have similar historical materials to share.

Rules

  • Try to allow others to voice their side of things. While there are not going to be set time limits, concision helps to let everyone speak.
  • NO PERSONAL ATTACKS!
  • Try to be Respectful and Not Yell
  • Be Constructive
  • It's preferred (but not required) that speakers wear headphones to prevent audio feedback. If there is a persistent and bad feedback issue we may have to mute that person and interact through chat itself. This not only makes for a bad recording but can impact the discussion itself.


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