#sysconversation documentation

[system-of-a-feather]

Relating to this post, I wanted to ask some of the earlier founders of the tag (that I see are still active) their opinion on what the sysconversation tag is used for and how to tell if something is syscourse vs sysconversation?

Asking this because I know people have stated some ambiguity / confusion on what exactly this tag is and what differentiates it from syscourse so I wanted to open this up to the people who I know have been here a while and played a role in the development of the community.

No responses here are to be taken as the "end all be all" but more so a collection of opinions / perspectives / views of the tag and it's definition to help give some clarity to people who may be looking into the tag for the first time.

Tagging @hiiragi7 @artisticdysfunction @sysciety @indigochromatic @korya-elana @clover-system @wondercourse in particular as I saw them in the development of the tag and see them still semi-regularly engaging. Anyone in the original post is also welcome to add their opinion too and anyone who I tagged here is more than welcome to ignore this prompt / question

[system-of-a-feather]

Documentation of Early Sysconversation Tag Coining

Because I feel like down the line there may be questions on the definition and purpose of the sysconversation tag, I did want to document some of the early coiners / founders of the tag since I myself was relying on memory to know who were some of the prominent people in founding it. I know when it comes to online discourse, a lot of people like to play "well I understood it as this" and "the original purpose was this not that".

For that purpose, I took a bit to scroll to the very bottom of the sysconversation tag and document a little history of it while "scrolling to the bottom of the tag" was still a SOMEWHAT reasonable adventure to go on.

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Note Before the Post

The purpose of this post is not to say "these people are better than others" or "these people are inherently The Bosses of the tag". I personally dislike when one person claims ownership over a community; if anything, this is my attempt at making it easier in the future (as the tag hopefully grows and gains more history) to record the history behind it while it is still relatively easy so that should conflicts come up, there are a number of individuals who are hopefully still around that may have credibility in discussing their role in the founding of the tag.

If anything, I am making this post because I do my best in the tag to try to keep the Vibes Right with the original intent as I love the tag, but deeply dislike that every time I do so, it sounds like I am claiming the tag as my creation; this among anything else is me wanting to share other people who played a large role in founding it as to make it clear that I am only one of MANY founders. The Sysconversation tag is inherently not "made" by any one person and is a tag made by a Community of people; please do not use this document with the intent to claim ownership of the tag and use this as something of a timeline.

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October 23, 2023

@artisticdysfunction made a poll suggesting the tag "sysconversation" to "actually discuss stuff" ; in that thread @hiiragi7 @greens-spilled-tea us (@system-of-a-feather) @sysciety engaged in some discussion about the concept, idea, and plan to develop the original tag

Posts in this Brief creation Period were made by those five individuals in addition to @traumascumathena @indigochromatic @actuallyverynormalbtw

The tag did not particularly last long in it's original creation as it did not have many posts beyond a few interesting threads and a few one-post posts. Most activity had died in the tag by November 2023 and was dead for months after a post by @hiiragi7 on December 23, 2023

June 20, 2024

@sysciety suggests to bring back the tag for "actual discussions" because "syscourse seems beyond saving sometimes"; much of the original founders engage with the post with agreement along with @korya-elana @scapeg8ats @clover-system and @snowglobe-system

Following the revive, there were a number of individuals who had posted - more than the original creation period - so I can not list everyone; with that said, there was a semi-organized direct effort to populate the tag in hopes of making it survive; some of which were people I directly talked to about the revival of the tag as I was optimistic and hoping for the space

The original people involved in the development of the tag in October were back to support the revival as well as much of the original posters in the tag.

A few repeat faces appeared in the July era that have stuck around consistently including @wondercourse @paracosmic-gt @quoigenicfromhell @cosmoscollect @the-sour-patch-crew @rayssyscourse @thecircularsystem

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Disclaimer

I radically and heavily block people; it is not a personal thing, I simply take the curation of my internet space very intentionally and anything I'd rather not see (which can range from bigotry to poor / disrespectful rhetoric to just too many userboxes or personal squicks / triggers) so there is a chance when I was doing this documentation that someone may have been missed. If anyone commented above would like to comment any corrections / key individuals (preferably with post citation) that I missed that should be placed on this as a reference down the line, please do so as I am hoping to not bias this (and I only realized I can't see blocked posts in the tags until AFTER I finished collecting this, RIP me) but I am not perfect