Feedback time!

[randomling]

Hi, guys!

So I've been changing things up a bit the last couple of weeks: the occasional new question, a goals post, etc. Time to tell me what you think! Poll is under the cut to save your reading lists.

PS Don't forget this week's goals follow-up post is up too.

Poll #14584 Awesomeers Feedback Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 19

What do you think of awesomeers overall?

Excellent - needs hardly any improvement
4 (21.1%)

Good - room for improvement, but finding it useful
15 (78.9%)

Okay - could be better
0 (0.0%)

Poor - could be a lot better
0 (0.0%)

Awful - needs a complete overhaul
0 (0.0%)

Tell me how you feel about challenges!

I love the challenges!
11 (57.9%)

I'd like us to have Just One Thing every day, even if other challenges happen too.
14 (73.7%)

I like having different challenges through the week
10 (52.6%)

I don't like when the challenge is new or unexpected
3 (15.8%)

I'd prefer to only have one challenge a day
4 (21.1%)

I don't like/don't use challenges
0 (0.0%)

I have more to say on challenges which I will add in the comments
0 (0.0%)

Guest hosting!

I might be interested in guest hosting.
9 (52.9%)

I would not be interested in guest hosting.
8 (47.1%)

What, if anything, would you like to see changed or improved in Awesomeers? (Leave a comment if you run out of space!)

Anything else?

I have ideas for theme weeks!
4 (36.4%)

I would like more (or any) discussion posts!
6 (54.5%)

I might be interested in helping out behind the scenes!
6 (54.5%)

This community should be more active!
2 (18.2%)

I have ideas for promoting the community!
1 (9.1%)

I am getting bored with all the exclamation marks!
0 (0.0%)

I have something else to say!
0 (0.0%)

Any other comments? (Leave a comment if you run out of space!)

Feel free to add anything you like in the comments.

Comments

[worlds_of_smoke]

ftr, I don't participate in the challenges publicly. :) I do keep track of that stuff privately.

[untonuggan]

Thank you for doing this! *cheers*

[hatman]

I'm not really sure what to say here.

I really like the idea of this community in theory. I like the Just One Thing post in theory. I'm not generally much for challenges (it's not how I work... when I work, that is, which is kind of another issue and kind of exactly the problem I'm having), but maybe something will spark me one of these days.

The thing is that I've been feeling useless and stuck in a rut. I've been too exhausted and/or sick to really accomplish anything. My life hasn't gotten anywhere since I went on medical leave from school over a decade ago. And my one attempt to put that behind me, start fresh, and really make a difference is also stuck and not really going anywhere due to practical issues.

So I see the Just One Thing post and sure I'd love to get a boost from finding even some little thing that went right. And, in theory, focusing on that is what I need to do. Heck, it's how I learned to survive way back in my teens when all this started hitting - appreciate the good things, do what you can with what you've got, let the negative go, etc.

Except that what's actually been happening is that I see the Just One Thing post and I try to think of Just One Thing and instead of finding the positive, I end up dwelling on how there really isn't anything I've managed to accomplish in the last 24 hours or the last week or the last month...

(And yeah, posting about how, despite the pain and exhaustion, I managed to scrape myself out of bed worked once. It really was an accomplishment that day. But making that even a semi-regular Just One Thing... let's just say it doesn't work for me.)

I don't know. Maybe the answer is that this community just isn't for me. Maybe I should just leave. I avoided talking about any of this for months because the point here is to find the positive and I don't want to bring negativity to it.

But if someone has some potentially helpful thoughts, I'd be interested to hear. And maybe someone else is in roughly the same boat and finding a solution would make the community more widely useful? Worth a shot, right?