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resolvingWelcome to resolving! This is a general community for resolutions: making and maintaining them, just in time for you to get to making your 2011 New Year's Resolutions. A few rules before we get started!
1. Your resolution can be about absolutely anything as long as it is something concrete.
That is, something you can do, write about,maybe show us a picture of. Something with measurable progress. If you want to turn something intangible into a tangible resolution (ie, I want to feel better about myself, so I write three complements about myself into my journal every day) that is fine!
Your resolution doesn't have to be very serious, but we trust that each member will treat every challenge with respect: it is to be assumed that everyone here is trying to make an equal effort to change themselves.
2. Your resolution should have a timeline or goal.
Your goal should be something long term: some change that makes a difference over a non-trivial period of time. What does long term mean? Nothing shorter then a few weeks, and ideally, you’d be measuring your goal in months or years. Some goals are measured in completing tasks without deadlines but with other guidelines that may take months or years to complete: these resolutions are equally acceptable ones to follow here.
It is also acceptable to talk about your resolution in terms of the smaller goals or milestones that you’ll be taking. IE, if you’re planning on folding a thousand cranes for a pediatric ward, and you think you’ll fold 100 cranes this week, and 200 the next, that would be an acceptable way to divide your goal.
3. Share what you feel comfortable with, both success and failure. We will try to be constructive, helpful, polite, and uplifting, as necessary.
Not everyone is going to be comfortable going into detail or able to say something every time, but sharing is something the maintainer considers to be important to keeping both the community and the resolutions going! So please, share what you can do comfortably, frequently. We will try to do our best to respond appropriately.
Unsolicited criticizing or put downs over others progress is unacceptable at all times. If a member of the community asks for critique or tips, please keep it civil on both sides of the conversation. Feel free to ask if you can share a critique with a member or for someone to provide more details, although that person isn't obligated to respond with permission for critique or said details if it makes them uncomfortable.
4. Usingresolving for keeping up with other challenges is fine, but promoting them in the community wholesale without permission of the maintainer is not.
There are any number of challenges out there that are about making ourselves better human beings in any number of ways which is great, and you're free to pick and choose any number that you want to, and discuss and link to them in the context of your goals. But for the good of the community, we're not going to allow said challenges be promoted freely in the community at large.
However! There will be a promotions thread in every discussion post, where you will be free to leave links to said challenges, once a month. IE, if you posted a link to "A General Bake and Post Pictures Every Day On DW" in last week's discussion thread, you can't post about it in this week's post. But you can do it in four weeks, if the challenge is ongoing or restarting. Pick and choose your promotional date carefully. The once a month rule applies to all links related to said challenge. The maintainer suggests that you post the name and subject of the challenge in the subject of the comment on the promotions thread for ease of browsing.
If you want to make a promotion that doesn’t quite fit the discussions schedule posting, please contact the maintainer.
5. At all times, please try to be polite and productive when responding on this community, and practice using good Internet discussion guidelines, and respect your fellow members.
Here is a very complete set of guidelines for behavior that one should follow for general online discussion, should you not have a comparable set of rules to fall back on.
6. Read the rules, because the maintainer already assumes that you have done so.
Failure to follow any of the above rules, especially the last one, may result in a warning, a temporary ban, or a permanent ban using the maintainer’s discretion, but largely based on the three strikes rule. Not reading the rules is never a good excuse.
If there are any questions about the rules or the community in general, please ask in the comments below, PM existence, PM erika, or email cookiepirate at gmail dot com and/or midnightparadox at gmail dot com. Please remember to mentionresolving in your note if it's not in the comments here.
Next up is going to be a friending meme and then a better description of what the comm's going to be up to in the new year! Hint: it involves a lot of milestones.
resolving! This is a general community for resolutions: making and maintaining them, just in time for you to get to making your 2011 New Year's Resolutions. A few rules before we get started!1. Your resolution can be about absolutely anything as long as it is something concrete.
That is, something you can do, write about,maybe show us a picture of. Something with measurable progress. If you want to turn something intangible into a tangible resolution (ie, I want to feel better about myself, so I write three complements about myself into my journal every day) that is fine!
Your resolution doesn't have to be very serious, but we trust that each member will treat every challenge with respect: it is to be assumed that everyone here is trying to make an equal effort to change themselves.
2. Your resolution should have a timeline or goal.
Your goal should be something long term: some change that makes a difference over a non-trivial period of time. What does long term mean? Nothing shorter then a few weeks, and ideally, you’d be measuring your goal in months or years. Some goals are measured in completing tasks without deadlines but with other guidelines that may take months or years to complete: these resolutions are equally acceptable ones to follow here.
It is also acceptable to talk about your resolution in terms of the smaller goals or milestones that you’ll be taking. IE, if you’re planning on folding a thousand cranes for a pediatric ward, and you think you’ll fold 100 cranes this week, and 200 the next, that would be an acceptable way to divide your goal.
3. Share what you feel comfortable with, both success and failure. We will try to be constructive, helpful, polite, and uplifting, as necessary.
Not everyone is going to be comfortable going into detail or able to say something every time, but sharing is something the maintainer considers to be important to keeping both the community and the resolutions going! So please, share what you can do comfortably, frequently. We will try to do our best to respond appropriately.
Unsolicited criticizing or put downs over others progress is unacceptable at all times. If a member of the community asks for critique or tips, please keep it civil on both sides of the conversation. Feel free to ask if you can share a critique with a member or for someone to provide more details, although that person isn't obligated to respond with permission for critique or said details if it makes them uncomfortable.
4. Using
resolving for keeping up with other challenges is fine, but promoting them in the community wholesale without permission of the maintainer is not.There are any number of challenges out there that are about making ourselves better human beings in any number of ways which is great, and you're free to pick and choose any number that you want to, and discuss and link to them in the context of your goals. But for the good of the community, we're not going to allow said challenges be promoted freely in the community at large.
However! There will be a promotions thread in every discussion post, where you will be free to leave links to said challenges, once a month. IE, if you posted a link to "A General Bake and Post Pictures Every Day On DW" in last week's discussion thread, you can't post about it in this week's post. But you can do it in four weeks, if the challenge is ongoing or restarting. Pick and choose your promotional date carefully. The once a month rule applies to all links related to said challenge. The maintainer suggests that you post the name and subject of the challenge in the subject of the comment on the promotions thread for ease of browsing.
If you want to make a promotion that doesn’t quite fit the discussions schedule posting, please contact the maintainer.
5. At all times, please try to be polite and productive when responding on this community, and practice using good Internet discussion guidelines, and respect your fellow members.
Here is a very complete set of guidelines for behavior that one should follow for general online discussion, should you not have a comparable set of rules to fall back on.
6. Read the rules, because the maintainer already assumes that you have done so.
Failure to follow any of the above rules, especially the last one, may result in a warning, a temporary ban, or a permanent ban using the maintainer’s discretion, but largely based on the three strikes rule. Not reading the rules is never a good excuse.
If there are any questions about the rules or the community in general, please ask in the comments below, PM existence, PM erika, or email cookiepirate at gmail dot com and/or midnightparadox at gmail dot com. Please remember to mention
resolving in your note if it's not in the comments here.Next up is going to be a friending meme and then a better description of what the comm's going to be up to in the new year! Hint: it involves a lot of milestones.
