RE: HiveFest 7, It's Over - My Take
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Awww, this makes me a little sad. I'm really sorry we made you feel that way. Hivefests are these wonderful things that where from the first second you walk through the door, you prepare to talk to anyone and everyone, and I can say that after being at a few of them now this is both a blessing and a curse. Usually by the end I barely have any voice left, have taken no pictures, and did almost nothing outside of conference venues, so I can definitely say for me that by the time closing dinner rolls around I am really starting to hit the wall and certainly am not as mindful as I could be. One of my favorite parts of it all is getting to chat with people I don't know (even if I'm dead on my feet), so I really apologize that instead of being kind and pleased to meet you, I didn't manage to act that way or convey that. I still think fests are worth it for the 'offline' engagement alone, so don't let jerks like me colour your experience!
Now I feel bad.
You're not a jerk, I guess that these things just happen.
Thanks for being thoughtful enough to apologise for something that you probably don't remember. That final night in the salt mines was the end of a long three days after all.
Tbh, it was more the way aggroed looked at me when I made a joke about the bridge of khazad dum, said nothing, and then just turned around and continued talking to you. That got my back up, and it fired up my anxiety for the rest of the night. That type of behaviour will stay in your memory when you've spent years battling social anxiety.
All in all, SF3 in Krakow was an OK experience for me. It reminded me how introverted I am (and that it's OK to be introverted as long as you recognise it), and how that anxiety will rear its ugly head in such massive group situations. This is the only reason why I wouldn't class my time in Krakow as good, or excellent. I don't think some people are made for networking, or at least it isn't natural (or fun) for them.
I must have plucked up the courage to speak to about 10-15 people (outside of the group I was staying with) the whole time I was there. But sometimes it's a quality over quantity thing. As I got to know Jayna (who took over The Ink Well from me when my health meant I couldn't keep up with running a community) on the way back from the Auschwitz trip and we bonded over a mutual love of monty python, and both being fiction writers. Also a few others on the return coach such as arcange , elizacheng, nomadicsoul and a few other people, as we were all drawn into a kind of post 'horrors of Auschwitz' group healing session on the coach. A lot of laughing 😂, but also sober reflection, an odd combo tbh.
I also met some people I'd already interacted with on-chain like soyrosa llfarms, karinxxl, buttcoins and honeydew. And someone I'd worked with in promo-mentors community called evecab. But nearly all of these people have disappeared from hive now. Only jayna, soyrosa, karinxxl and arcange remain from all those people I mentioned. I guess I had a mixed bag of a time at SF3 for one reason or another as I'm not naturally outgoing.
Anyway, all of that is a long time ago and is water under the bridge crimsonclad.
I've just got a memory that seems to get clearer as I get older, strange but true.
Hey.
It was nice to meet you.
I hope that you guys found that hobo park and were not fined by the police :-)
I would like to mention something to you.
It seems that your account is used as part of freezepeach curation.
This curation has been used to upvote well-known abusers. For example:
arabisouri - blacklisted for farming with shitposts on multiple accounts and comment farming on multiple accounts
Besides that this is Assad's and Putin's apologist who is shilling for Assad and Russia with lies and propaganda.
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Hi, sorry! was on the road from Hivefest right through until the end of Splinterfest and then focused on the hardfork. So, yes. I do both delegate to and vote-trail Freeze Peach knowingly. While I rarely agree with the actual sentiments or content of many of the things the service votes, that is its purpose and I think it has a place here especially as we talked about how it is a weird balancing act that Hive exists in part to give all people voices, even the ones we vehemently disagree with, provided they meet a small list of criteria the service is guided by. In this case, FP works to be a tiny counter what is basically a huge, automatic downvote that is place for the most part because people feel these topics are anathema.I absolutely recognize where your concern comes from on this front but I feel okay with being a small contributor to this, just as I know many people would be displeased with my contribution to certain charitable voting or what have you.
Hey. What's happening with the witness? You folks finished?
thanks for checking in. I'm just getting through a month of traveling starting with Hivefest and ending with Splinterfest, and focused on working on the hardfork. For people asking during this time period, I was open with what was happening with the disabling, but today was the first day I had enough time to properly address people's anger and concerns and adequately explain. I appreciate you checking and noticing.
Tl;dr on the post I just made, the @followbtcnews witness has been disabled and will not be coming back online under that account.