As a recent transplant, I would like more upcoming events posts, and suggestions on places to visit. To that end I really ~~enjoy~~ enjoyed /r/ askportland more than /r/portland
So if we could cultivate more that kind of vibe, that’d be cool.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I’m new here too! I heard that there’s a Portland discord that has some stuff like that. Maybe we can start cross posting interesting things from there?
I don’t live in Portland, but I agree with you about the types of posts I would like to find when I go to a community magazine/sub/page. I like to see recommendations of things to check out that I haven’t heard of, small businesses to support, things that make a place unique. I can find the critical stuff almost anywhere else (although there should be discussion on that of course).
When I first came to r/Portland, it was the kind of place that made fun of the oLive comment section. Over the last few years, it became functionally indistinguishable from it, with posters stumbling over each other to find the most nihilistic Eeyore take on any given subject.
It'd be awesome if we could avoid the same trap here, and I guess the solution is to consciously try to avoid Nextdooring the place up too hard. Like, how many different homeless camp fire articles do we need in a week to drive meaningful conversation?
I showed up during the Slough-people drama. Started with a guy asking why seemingly homeless people were being dropped off on the shore of the Columbia Slough via pontoon boat every morning. Ended with a guy getting his drone shot out of the air by pirates.
That was my kind of content.
I love your thought process, but I'm not sure how we get there
There are a number of options. One for example is to have a weekly mega thread for news, and require it all gets posted there. Maybe with exceptions for major events, elections, etc.
Oh I see, you're talking about limiting news stories. That's a good idea.
Megathreads make a lot of sense, but I say that as someone who'd just route around them: I keep a tight rein on my news sources and have never considered this kind of site
whether it's reddit, Lemmy, MetaFilter or other
a useful way to get current events precisely because each forum will eventually develop a character, and that character will influence the mix. Just plain old RSS to a select group of sites for me, with a content blocker to handle the inevitable bad comments.
Anyhow, I'd support weekly (or even daily) news posts that encouraged people to only start new threads within them on new topics (vs. starting threads with different headlines on the same topic).
Would definitely love to see less of the doom and gloom porn that has been so prevalent Portland Reddit. I think there’s certain a time and place for discussing significant news events that happen in town, but I was really really sick of seeing all the doom and gloom porn of Portland Reddit.
I stopped going to Reddit at the start protest and haven’t been back, and while I’m definitely feeling pretty out of touch on local goings on and Timbers news, it’s been refreshing to not have my day filled with the endless negative posts about our current ills.
Definitely not saying I want to ignore what’s been going on, it’s pretty hard to ignore, but if/when I need to know about that stuff I’ll seek that news out.
I don’t know the right answer to make that happen without some more heavy handed moderating (which I am not advocating for either), as at least some of the folks posting that stuff have a clear agenda and will swayed by appeals to out better nature like this. But I am definitely in favor of this place becoming a more positive place for community engagement and not another next door or battle ground for political/ideological troll warfare.
In short, I am emphatic YES to everything you said!
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