For all the newcomers to saidit today, welcome! Here's what makes saidit unique

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[–]Greedeater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

LOL I don't even remember where I got those but I've been adding to those lists by recommendations about what's missing, so ShowerThoughts, WritingPrompts and NoSleep are not even mine, though I'll be sure to check them out.

All are good to keep the creative juices flowing so yes definitely have a squizz at em over on Eddit.

I'm actually writing several projects, but that's another long thing for another day if you actually care. Yes there's /s/Writing and recently /s/Microfiction.

Subbed, thank you. Ooh if you are, what else should I keep an eye out for writers?

While I understand there may be nuances between the general and specific categories I'm frustrated by redundancies when there's a lot that haven't been covered. For example recent additions /s/SyrianCivilWar and /s/vzla mirror the extant /s/Syrian and /s/Venezuela but there's none for Asia, Brazil, EU, Mexico, NewZealand, Russia, SaudiArabia, UK, Vietnam, etc.

That'll come with Population/user growth I reckon. It could be that Squatters (mods snapping up URLs so no one else can use em) grabbed the originals before the others could? Folks coming from Eddit see subs as prime real estate I reckon. Myself included for WPD, won't lie.

Those are regional, and as you saw I have lots more. But a lot of the broader ones nullify any sort of need for specifics, at least for the foreseeable future. Like "DeepState", "MindControl" and "NGOs" would cover all the specific examples in their more specific lists and more, just as "Crime" covered a lot.

Diversification is definitely a welcome addition once numbers are up on Saidit, so these niches are filled.

Asking magnora7 sounds good. What's a powermod? I'm pretty sure I'm not that, unless my graffiti/banners counts. Don't feel pressured or obligated to do anything you don't want to. Or rushed. Take time to see how it goes. My history is wide open here. And in that history you'll see me constantly intending to soon to pull back to focus on my projects and animation. I really mean it but I may be getting addicted to SaidIt.

Magnora7 isnt a fan of Powermods either, so that's cleared that up as far as I'm concerned. Powermods are the reason folks are coming here (as well as the censorship) from Eddit; essentially it boils down to a few hundred controlling most of the content in subs with hundreds or thousands of Moderator spots that abuse their "power" from one sub to the next.

And animation eh? What kind of things you have under the belt? I'm appreciative for the offer to create the sub for me regardless and keen for it :)

I don't know if I'm "for the subjects" so much as come across content that fits there best. Sex, Race, WorldHistory, Solutions, VideoEssays - are very broad topics with content that would belong there over other defaults like "news". And if I'm looking for information on vaccines I'd rather go to a vaccines sub than "health" in general covering all manner of issues.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not so much interested in writers or writer communities, or reading from writers.

I'm interested in writing good screenplays, comedy, and trutherism - for my projects.

Many of that overlaps with good writing - like how character and plot are a delicate dance requiring good balance to weaves good stories.

I used to listen/watch many YouTube channels on screenwriting-filmmaking if you're interested in that.

I don't think people check the subs as often as the should. Myself included. Other redundant subs are /s/Trump and /s/The_Donald /s/SandersForPresident /s/WayOfTheBern /s/Death /s/WatchPeopleDie /s/AskSaidIt /s/SaidItSurveys and /s/IdeasForSaidIt and /s/SaidIt. They all have their subtle differences that, like you said, over time will be defined. But there are big gaps.

I really don't know why you want WPD so bad but there it is. Behave with it. I'm guessing the community is the part that's notable. Ever go to Rotten.com? I visited a few times in the 90s and 2000s.

I still don't see the problem with powermods if we develop policies that keep them in check and don't get tyranny. Not to mention the M7D3 admins watching over them and cultivating good community. It seems like powermods got corrupted because the admins were corrupt.

I'm totally willing to let anyone co-mod my subs who asks. My only requirement is they not be an asstroll. I've only seen a couple mild attitudes here on SaidIt who I'd think twice about.

Vimeo has better quality but only one video https://vimeo.com/user67299269 and YouTube deleted a bunch, so this is what's left of my dozen year old YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0EypUUzo-v9YUmGLQvcfDQ

Do you know anything about setting up bots?

On my subs wish list you may have seen my "media top choices" list. There were only 19 there. And while a have long list of heroes I would actually not want to have them each with their own sub - at least not until SaidIt it Reddit sized. And of those 19, many of them don't really need their own sub either. You could pretty much set up bots for most of them to post into only 4 categories: LibertarianVideos, ProgressiveVideos, AltMedia/Indie/Truther/TruthSeekerVideos, and VideoEssays. Most of the VideoEssay channels only publish once or twice a month, but it'd be rad to simply find them all in one place. And really when I think about it I'd not even bother with the Libs and Progs - in part because so many of them are hard to tell apart as they're simply anti-corruption or anti-authoritarian - and in part because I'd rather keep them mixed up for all the SaidIters to keep them from their left-right bubbles and expose them to new ideas.

I wasn't a Redditor but after 5 months on SaidIt if I were to do it over again, I would have made my wish list sooner to better organize, prioritize, and make better choices. /s/InfoGalactic is still my online homebase of sorts (https://infogalactic.com/info/User:JasonCarswell) and I thought more folks might embrace it but Wikipedia/InfoGalactic and Reddit/SaidIt culture are farther apart than I'd realized. /s/SaidItSurveys isn't a bad mistake but meh. /s/ZoonPolitikon should have been /s/PoliticalAnalysis or /s/TruthSeekerVideos or /s/IndieNewsReaders.