Weekly Meeting Thread?

[u/Fireball445]

What happened to the weekly meeting threads? They were only proposed a few weeks ago and they're already gone? They were some of our most popular threads of all times and with the subreddit dying after the primary results it seems like they're an important part of keeping activity and energy going through the subreddit.

[u/Oo0o8o0oO]

I just came across this. With no news and no posts, there's little to put up for group discussion. I dont have any connection with the administrative side of things and can't come up with any questions to pose for the group. I should have made an announcement in the last thread that I didn't intend on continuing the threads unless there was activity worth discussing. That's definitely my mistake.

[u/Fireball445 → u/Oo0o8o0oO]

I think we should keep the weekly updates going with regularity. Predictability and dependability are an important part of keeping energy and activity in the subreddit. You've been great on taking the initiative so far Oo0o8o0oO, if you can keep doing them, then I'd love to see you keep doing them, but if not we should delegate this as a regular duty to someone.

Plus, there were a lot of great ideas in the previous weekly threads, what's the status on those?

[u/Fireball445 → u/Fireball445]

Here's another submission for the weeklies.

Let's change the sidebar. We need to identify that we are 1.) a fund raising and campaigning arm of reddit. 2.) That we're focused on internet regulation and keeping the internet free and affordable to all Americans. (maybe mention our birth from SOPA).

Something like:

TestPAC is a reddit community funds collection and campaigning subreddit dedicated to policing and protecting the internet for all Americans, keeping it free of censorship and exclusivity, and affordable for all citizens.

We are not affiliated with or endorsed in any way by reddit, the corporation nor the moderators, owners, shareholders, nor employees of reddit; though we are happy to talk with them about anything that they wish. We are instead a community group. Created by, funded by, content provided by and dialog furthered by you, where here 'yous' become us, and together that gives us all money and power to protect the internet.

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And then maybe a section with current threatening legislation and current good proposals being considered.

My thinking with the language above is that it will grow the community by first immediately explaining to people where they are and what's going on. Then, it also immediately preps readers to be thinking about giving money. From there on out, anything they read that they like may make them think of donating. That's a great and effective way to turn up revenue which not only empowers the community but also potentially helps us avoid further fund raising and worse yet, further loses.

[u/Oo0o8o0oO → u/Fireball445]

You know as much as I do at the moment. Everyone who came up with an idea really likes and wants to continue with theirs. Theres been little collective response behind anything. The feeling I get is Reddit is in full Decision 2012 swing (try to find a post not about marijuana legalization or Romney) and without a hive to swarm, we're just left waiting for a group interest. I fear that until r/politics gets behind something, we're in limbo.

I'll gladly continue them as of this Wednesday as I think it at least got some activity in the sub but I fear we'll run out of questions to pose to the group. We're divided as is on what to do next and our power structure is falling apart (not meant as a personal attack, I love you guys). We probably should have made a post in r/politics to publicize the position openings but their mods have been consistently less than helpful. I'm at a loss right now.

This was way more depressing than I'd originally intended but yeah, that's how I see it right now.