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But I do mind if you think we are too dumb to notice cheating poorly.
"escargotrecipe81934.jpg" eh?
I don't understand your moral outrage. Find someone who is a victim of a humanitarian crisis, and beg, borrow, or steal to fix their problem. This could be through an already established charity you find aligns itself well with HC priorities. You may attempt to cover your own costs, or invest in an infrastructure of future humanitarian aid. Long discussions often stem from the notion that SF0 should get us tasking outside of our comfort zone, and forcing us to enter the competitive world of charity would likely put us well off-kilter. The manner of collecting donations could be anything -- go play a poorly tuned guitar out on the street corner. Find corporate sponsorships for your effort to help someone. Take a courier flight out to the victim. Acquiring capital is a necessary step towards many fruitful ends, and our stated opposition to "alienated labour demanded under capitalism" does not run contrary to the spirit of this task.
I am pleased to see that the vastly powerful new features SSI have been labouring over, such as locations for every picture in a submission, varied strengths of votes, earning the ability to vote, and an exciting new task list have all taken second fiddle to the power of TERMS. Well done SFØ, you have made the internet proud.
I had a conversation with Harry Lee (and Levitating Potato) about this duel. Here was our dilemma in choosing whom to vote for:
[12:59:40 AM] Harry Lee says: Who are you voting for?
[1:00:39 AM] Waldo says: It's a tough call, they are radically different approaches to SF0
[1:01:18 AM] Waldo says: Lincoln, as always, is raw and somehow captures the struggle of human endeavor
[1:01:33 AM] Waldo says: Lincoln embodies "finding a way"
[1:01:45 AM] Waldo says: but Burn Unit -- his completion is remarkably elegant
[1:01:53 AM] Waldo says: Certainly different approaches to the task.
[1:02:26 AM] Waldo says: I could imagine his video being part of an advertisement for Home Depot or something, its gorgeous
[1:02:31 AM] Levitating Potato says: I agree... I was in the mood to vote for the elegant simplicity
[1:03:28 AM] Waldo says: One shows a man, grooving on some saws, there for all the world to see. The other, the creator is a mystery, absent, putting his work on a pedastal for us to marvel at.
[1:04:07 AM] Waldo says: I don't know which I want to encourage
[1:04:15 AM] Waldo says: encourage people to be like Lincoln
[1:04:23 AM] Harry Lee says: Or BU.
[1:04:30 AM] Waldo says: or encourage people to strive for the perfection of BU's work
[1:04:38 AM] Harry Lee says: (nod)
[1:05:20 AM] Waldo says: I'm just not sure which is the goal of SF0. Making people who are unconstrained by society, or whether those people are a means towards to ends of the beauty such people can create.
[1:05:36 AM] Harry Lee says: Both.
[1:05:54 AM] Waldo says: Is SF0 a workout for the person, making them freer, or is it art, and the expression should be beautiful and shared with the world?
[1:06:08 AM] Harry Lee says: Again, in my opinion... Both. :)
On that basis, I am not going to impact the outcome of the duel, in that I am voting for both of you. As a personal note to Lincoln however, I am very impressed. I didn't think you could find a more seemingly dangerous and eerily beautiful task than a photo at the bottom of the sea, cinder blocks in hand. But playing music mostly naked in a room full of swinging circular saws and power tools... I'll be damned if you haven't outdone yourself.
An epic CHEAT completion is in your grasp.
OR
Spam mail the play to dozens of hollywood producers.
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Hand out copies on BART with cute notes and encouragement to read for pleasure.
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Annotate your love for the object in a public place.
OR
Ok... get a whole lot of eggs see...
I feel like there are already a scale of ways to show appreciation; you can favorite a task, comment on it, message the player, level-zero it, submit new tasks inspired by and in homage to it if necessary, create a complimentary or honorary tag for the task... and vote. Voting at all is a stamp of approval, and the added degree is something people have clamoured for, and I want you to consider why.
Not because we want to show we appreciate some people less. We are not imagining ourselves with monocles and bushy mustasches, looking for a way to say "Pish, posh" to tasks that aren't worth a full vote. The one-to-five scale means something else, and we haven't decided as a society what it that is yet. I use it as a scale of how much I want to see more tasks like this in the future. I am literally handing over some of my power to affect SF0 to another player, telling them "I want your opinion and perspective to be heard by others."
Last era points were just part of a personal mission to level up, and have access to other tasks. With the idea that everyone was seeking additional points (from our votes) for that purpose alone, voting was just giving someone a helping hand, a gesture of appreciation. Now though votes give the player more than the power to change their own tasking, but also an increased stake in the forum and discourse of our society, a larger sway in encouraging and shaping new players and praxis.
I believe the base-number of points we all began with this era has just been increased to 25, so with single-point votes you can go show appreciation for more than twenty tasks. Or, you can show your approval and admiration of as many tasks and sentiments and ideas as you want, and ever want, and work out separately how to portion out the respect you have earned from your own tasking. Who to elect as steward of your vote points, to govern in the interim between now and your next praxis. I feel empowered.
In the mean time, I encourage players to vote for collaborative efforts with gusto, and watch vote-points multiply. Every collaborator on a praxis you vote for gets one-third of the points you gave them, so if there are more than three collaborators, the amount of vote-points in the economy increases. Collaboration is the key to our vote-point crisis, and coupled with sound investment in short-term bonds and annuities this plan will ensure our best days are ahead of us, not behind us.