The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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This appears to be another post from your blog. Which, hey, drum up that blog. But I'd prefer at least an occasional human interaction beyond text written for an extremely wide audience in mind.
I intentionally omitted any link and references to it because a) I didn't want to come across as shilling it, and b) I too (strongly) prefer some amount of engagement besides just "hey read my post okay bye"; i's annoying and spammy when people link their blog and don't engage. I figured people would find this idea at least slightly interesting, regardless of where else it was posted, and I would be happy to interact if someone were to respond (see this very reply!).
The "extremely wide audience" part I disagree with. I think this is probably more closely related to SSC-esque people than others (hence the posting here) because of the analytical approach I suggest instead of just shotgunning any and all potential improvements. Decisions (in regards to the essay) can have major opportunity costs if they're pursued too hastily without proper checking. I'd say few people consider said opportunity costs unless the costs are very high.
Regarding the Uganda post on the last Friday Fun thread, I just didn't have anything to say back to the two people who responded directly to me.
I'm not a mod, and am just mouthing off. I appreciate your replying. I assume anything written in blog format akin to shouting from a mountaintop to whoever will listen, as opposed to typing something in this place--in many ways a closed, if not locked, room. You are certainly correct, however, that you may have a specific audience in mind when you write.
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