The whispers topic: an experiment.
1Q: Is this potentially useful?
Better q: will anyone actually use it?
Best q: how stupid is this?
Speak up. Don’t be shy.
The purported purpose:
Annoyed by having your whisper conversations scattered all over the place in different topics, the names of many of which said topics you can no longer remember?
Thought I’d try creating a dedicated topic for whispers. Find them here.
/image whisper
Here’s the idea. (Prob a useless idea)
Create a post. To @mediocrebot or to yourself or to whomever.
“Whisper reply” to it, editing the “included mehmbers” list in the “whisper reply” to include only those persons with some you wish to chat privately at this time.
Then you can have a whisper conversation that you can easily find later, by searching for the “whisper topic”.
What about those whispers which went into other topics, because that’s where they were relevant?
Create a whisper in this topic addressed only to yourself. In the body of this whisper, link to the whisper thread in the other topic.
Then it’s easy to find.
As I mentioned, this is prob an excruciatingly clumsy and useless idea. To solve a prob that likely bothers no one but me.
I do seriously hate searching emails for ocasional whispers when I wanna refer back to one. But that’s just me. : (
I don’t whisper often. But I get annoyed when I have to go to email searching to find one.
Everyone: please tell me what a bad idea this is, or whatever. Openly, or by whisper.
I guess funny/witty critiques are best made public. Right?
/giphy “public whisper”
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Click on your profile and then click whispers.
It goes back 30 days. Do you need more than that?
Also, might be broken at the moment but it’s in the queue to be fixed.
@RiotDemon
Yeah. More than 30 days is kinda the point.
Or I just need more clutter in my life.
@f00l @RiotDemon or sometimes it is good that whispers disappear! There is a bright side here
@RiotDemon @tinamarie1974
Indeed. Some whispers prob need to be forgotten.
Some not?
And maybe I’m an idiot.
/giphy “move along nothing to see here”
@f00l @RiotDemon not an idiot!
Now that @RiotDemon has made a public comment, could be that other people might be using this topic for whisper threads that don’t include me.
and I’ll never know.
and that amuses me.
on the other hand, perhaps, rightfully, nobody cares.
That’s also good.
Feel free to whisper me any pics y’all want to share.
@medz
I have faith in your search skills, such that I bet you can find super-disturbing pix on the internet without my encouragement or assistance.
/image image
@f00l
/image f00l’s disturbing pix
@f00l I’m just saying some people are sharers and they might need an outlet.
@medz
Then go for it!
/giphy naughty naughty
Other ppl prob already knew this:
@mediocrebot didn’t seem to care about “fuck” and “awesome” if they are used within a whisper.
Even if @mediocrebot is a participant in the whisper thread.
I guess @mediocrebot is a fully
/giphy “public asshole”
@f00l
@mediocrebot doesn’t care about fuck at all anymore.
@carl669 I still give a fuck about you.
@Barney
If you are whispering so much you need a dedicated thread for it…
Just a guess here, but maybe you need to step back and assess your use of the feature.
Everybody but @f00l is free to whisper me at any time.
I’ll remember the conversation. That’s one of the benefits of not drinking or smoking ganja. Assuming the email notifications work, if not, just ping me again.
Or we could just talk out loud. I have few secrets.
@therealjrn Oh! How exciting! I just got my first whisper from this thread!
You people are just left out!
@therealjrn no fair, I didn’t get one!!
@therealjrn
I don’t whisper much.
(does that really matter to the price of eggs?)
I have a less than perfect short term memory. Same with long term.
I am, by construction and by personal philosophy, overwhelmed by mental and character deficits.
Does any of that mean whispering has little value?
And if I whispered a lot, would that mean I was “worse” and needed redirection “more” than if I whispered only a little?
Wasting my time that much more, or something?
Ok. It’s me.
What else is new?
Philosophical thoughts:
Have personal and private conversational exchanges come to carry so little potential value?
Besides, I always thought there were some things one might not wish to put out into the public open forum, given that anyone with internet access could potentially read it.
And sometimes conversations are private due to person’s shared private interests, or due to a desire for a narrow and targeted conversational focus.
FWIW I tend not to like much the practice of “talking behind some person’s or some group’s back.” I mean in a neg or gossipy way.
I won’t claim zero participation in that anywhere in my life, but I am usually damping it down. I don’t think it’s a v good mind state for me. So I try to remind self to avoid.
Or else to remind self that “it’s all ok in the end” and just go on with better discussions in other directions.
Sometimes those reminders work. Let’s hope they work often.
Ok maybe I need to get a better quality life.
Or not.
In the meantime, I’m curious to see the public reaction to this “no doubt stupid idea”.
Conclusion:
No doubt you are correct.
/giphy yessir!
Somebody whisper how to find all of your self-star posts… There’s some ancient ones that need to be undone.
@mike808 Yeah, I want in that. Can you CC Whisper me too please?
@mike808 @therealjrn you must live with your shame.
/giphy ew
@mike808 I was told they are near impossible to find. I have ONE that drives me crazy
@mike808 @tinamarie1974 yeah, that’s definitely a reason I don’t check my ‘stars’ source from my phone. Too easy to mess up and star your own post and not notice…
PSST! Am I doing this right?
@djslack
/giphy PERFECT!
Fuck, @mediocrebot! No comments?
Not awesome, @mediocrebot?
Not the best topic, @mediocrebot?
Maybe he doesn’t whisper. Or maybe he’s whispering to everybody but U.
@therealjrn
No doubt a just consequence for me
You can take off the hair shirt anytime @f00l.
@therealjrn
The hair shirt over @mediocrebot not wanting to whisper to me?
Gosh, I thought that was an ordained version of condemnation in perpetuity.
I’m feeling better now. Thx.
/giphy hair shirt
@f00l @mediocrebot I don’t understand–your picture does not match your words.
Best we just stop here.
Hey, @mediocrebot, you busy?
@aetris The scapegoat should be able to summon the bot at will.
@aetris is the “who” when you call, “Who’s there?” I am the wind blowing through your hair.
@therealjrn - Apparently so! I’d’ve thought that’d apply to our goats-emeritus as well, though.
@aetris According to @Mike808, we’re stinkin’ up the joint with goat emeriti. Probably too many for mediocrebot which to keep up with.
@aetris @mike808 @therealjrn Kind of defeats the purpose of having a scapegoat if we all have to take a turn. Time for some repeats next month. Concentrate the blame on a select few.
@aetris is the shadow on the moon at night. Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
@aetris @therealjrn
Sounds like @walarney might make a good scapegoat.
@aetris is the “who” when you call, “Who’s there?” I am the wind blowing through your hair.
@aetris @mike808 It sure does sound like @walarney is a darn fine candidate.