RE: How Do We Defend What We Value While Keeping Things Fun?

[bacchist]

@honeyscribe also responded, for the record.

https://steemit.com/identity/@honeyscribe/of-sock-puppets-and-witch-hunts

Comments

[lukestokes]

Thanks @bacchist.

Key takeaways for me:

Still, I wish he would have contacted me another way, such as inviting me to steemit.chat via comment, so I could connect with him and attempt to answer questions. He never attempted to contact me to confirm his suppositions which is an important piece of journalistic practice.

If you recall, that's what I've been advocating over and over again in direct message chant with you and others. Maybe it's my religious (now rejected) upbringing, but I do think there's some wisdom here:

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 18:15

If this isn't heartfelt, I don't know what is:

Please, Steemians, take note that sometimes people hide their faces not because they are liars, but because it is the only way they can step safely into the greater world. Again, I will point to the fact that all work here has been original.

This is not the voice of an evil doer:

I offer you an apology if I have hurt you. I truly am sorry.

Let's put down our pitforks and extinguish our torches. Let's all learn a little non-violent communication and seak out the tragic expressions of unmet needs all around us. Let's listen more and judge less. As we point a finger at others, we have many more pointing back at us. We recognize our own failures in others far too quickly.

Let's build instead of destroying.

[honeyscribe]

Thank you for pointing me here @lukestokes. I have joined steemit.chat as @honeyscribe. I am going to hang out there a bit and try to understand it, maybe open a discussion thread if that is the right thing to do.

[bacchist]

I appreciate where you are coming from. I actually have a lot of respect for the way of approaching the situation that you are promoting. And I have to agree that our unmet needs are often tragically expressed.

That being said, I can't take the explanations at face value. Not after the deception which has taken place. These are not honest actors. They are not conducting themselves in good faith.

The thing with rabbit holes is that they're pretty deep.

[lukestokes]

These are not honest actors. They are not conducting themselves in good faith.

I think that's a judgement which is based on paranoia, not reality. But keep on with what you think is right and time will decide who is benefitting the network and who is harming it.

[bacchist]

Based on the evidence you have seen...