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Mayel - ghost account

TFW when you're trying to be a good co-operator, not wanting to hoard any power, so you hand over responsibility to whoever steps up, but it backfires on you and you just end up looking unreliable. 🙃

@mayel dont know if that's worse or the one where theres loads of exciting plans, but nobody else wants to step up and do much to implement them except you.

@mayel Building the plane on the runway...

Appreciate all the work and time helping to get those wings on! <3

@mattcropp
That's not the issue. I don't know any other way, in fact this has been a relatively smooth ride.

I hope it didn't sound like I was bitching (though I was having a difficult day). I actually would like to be doing *more* with but have felt a bit held back lately.

@Antanicus @mattcropp @dazinism @Steve

@mayel @Steve @dazinism @mattcropp @Antanicus

What do you need to get some of the stuff that you want to do done?

@mayel
I think we need to redefine "good cooperator". I think to get the ball rolling on any effort we have to embrace temporary hierarchies but find formal ways to inscribe their limits and enforce transparency. I'm in a situation now where too much institutional knowledge got built up in one person and that person is now holding way too much power despite no formal title or responsibilities.

@kavbojka @mayel My co-op is in exactly that position. But in our case, the person with too much institutional knowledge is me. I've gone out of my way to be transparent at every step, but the only time people respond is when they complain.

That's exactly what I've been trying to avoid.

@Steve @kavbojka

@Steve
That's tough but common. What does transparency look like in your group? I think more communication channels run by more people (with discrete jobs) has been helping in our case.
@mayel

@kavbojka @mayel Transparency for us means a lot of email. We try to meet in person, but it's hard to make our schedules line up. (Our co-op is a second job for everyone.) I'd be happy to add more communication channels, but when I've tried in the past, people haven't used them.

@Steve @mayel

Start a newsletter. Get some other people to do it. If your coop has a physical space where people come regularly. Make some printed copies of the newsletter and also prioritize other printed/written communication.

@kavbojka @mayel There are only five of us, and I'm the only one with the skills or time to do that, but I do too much unpaid work already. That said, I did used to create our local co-op association's newsletter. It was in the form of a poster the different co-ops could hang up, and most of them did.