The worst thing a crowd funded campaign can do is stop talking. I have a book that is something like 2 years overdue and we (as a whole, the backers) don’t care, because we’re being talked to about the process, including hardships. Life happens. I’ve had a different one go silent sure to similar ish hardships and the community turned on them.

Even when gtg was going through severe staff reductions (three people were left) due to a parent company downsizing, the owner was still posting monthly, with things like “no new progress, I have no information from the parent company.”

Tldr Updates are critical, especially when the news sucks.

can’t save everyone, might as well kill everyone

I’m not a fan of giving him the Jesus treatment. He might pull a McConnell and come back after a few months

Pine is too… Porous. He’s so toxic, we need concrete walls

Mode wage. Added up for both the capital they serve (DC or state) and the location they serve (state for senator, district for representative)

I had to look it up, Kane was the mayor of Knox county, TN, not the undertaker. (Wikipedia, Knoxville TN website)

Truth be told, I was kind of hoping for a reply of “use this client, it does exactly that!” I’ll let you know if someone gives me one.

I’d love a lemmy client that next to a username, it gives their post to comment ratio. That tends to give me a solid feel. If they don’t comment on their own posts ever, then they are not here to discuss.

Fair point, but if there’s no engagement on those posts, it’s just a repost site like all the others, not a community.

Right, but the new-person-experience will royally suck because they don’t come pre-blocked. I actively try not to block accounts, to keep the view as default as possible.