Getting rolling

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, everybody! Hope everybody gets a chance to exercise today! I envision us each just doing a post to the community every day we get a chance to exercise.

This is supposed to be a low pressure, supportive scenario. But it is also supposed to be encouraging adn motivating. Would people like me to do a Monday roundup, of who posted during the previous week?

Like:

CK - 4 days
Rydra_Wong - 6 days (and one rest day! :D )
and so on?

Or is that WAY TOO COMPETITIVE AND STRESSFUL OMG?

Alternatively, we could split it. Anybody who wanted to be on the roundup could let me know, and anyone who found that too stressful could let me know, and I would only round up the ones who wanted that. I could even cut the round up to make it easy for people who might find it stress inducing to just not look at it.

I'm trying to think how a mod could add to the usefulness of the community. However, maybe there isn't anything really for me TO do, but sit back and enjoy the fellowship.

Thoughts?

Comments

[just_ann_now]

I'm in another mutual support group comm, picowrimo, a month-long thing for folks not anywhere wordy enough for Nanowrimo. What we do is post our goals for the month, adjusting them as necessary, and then report on how we're doing. We don't have to report every day unless we want to; when we do, it's to great mutual cheering and celebration. *g*

What the Mod does is start the daily post rolling (we reply in comments), welcome new members, and generally acts as head cheerleader. How does that sound for us?

[muck_a_luck]

That is definitely an interesting idea. I thought about doing a daily post and requesting responses, but decided I didn't want to go that route. I feel like that takes the focus off the people and puts it on the day. To me, it is not the day that is important, but the people, and I want their posts to be out, front and center, easy to see, read and respond to, not buried in nested comments. As a mod, I don't think it would be value added for me to create a daily umbrella post.

I could see it becoming both more and less possible if we got really large and active. An umbrella post could spare our friends pages 50 updates a day. On the other hand, 50 responses to an umbrella post would be even harder for us to respond to as a community.

[just_ann_now]

Ooooh, wouldn't fifty entries or even comments be a lovely thing? You don't see that much on comms that don't involve Chris Pine, or any of the Supernatural guys.

Whatever we decide to do is fine by me! I haven't posted or responded to your other post yet because I'm hoping to get some more exercise in during my afternoon off. (Also, need to get more icons over here - I keep looking for LJ ones that haven't uploaded yet.)

[muck_a_luck]

Haha! Well, IF teh community members are actually posting their daily exercise, we would have eleven or so updates every day already! :D

Yes, you can't post your exercise til it's done! Mine was just done at 6:15am, so I am an early poster. Usually, if it is not done by 7am at the latest (and that's for weekends), it's not gonna happen.