Proof of the Pudding - is always in the Eating!!Ī Collaborator is someone who essentially looks to work hard and contribute towards taking any story to its logical conclusion. They willingly put-up their hands for it, appreciating how it helps improving their own learning curve, as well as the larger Community’s.Īs mentioned before, just about anyone (all newbies inclusive) can put his/her hands up for this - but has to demonstrate that willingness by submitted work at VP. Invited participants (by virtue of new data-driven collaboration-capable work at VP, and/or exemplary work outside) are fully aware of the participation demands. Purpose is to give back to the community - in a more controlled/structured way through the Collaborators Corner - where no one has to spend time (continuously) to nurture/clean-up the discussion flow. This category could be used by the community as a barometer of desired higher-order contribution at VP. However, with huge membership now ( ~40K) and increasingly accelerating new registrations, it is difficult to control/incentivise quality discussion flow without diluting the essential democratic VP traditions (and/or imposing restrictions on newbies). We continue to believe every hard worker newbie is capable of upping the scale on continuous learning curve - provided he/she is continually exposed to the right, high-quality discussions VP has been known for. While everyone can see what is posted here, only Collaborators will be able to create and reply to topics/posts. so as not to muddy up the view with public and private messages, scat has you switch contexts by typing /private and then the name(s) (comma separated) of the private recipient(s) you want to converse with.The Collaborators Corner is a new category addition. scat works in a 7 day window of data to keep things snappy. The status bar at the top will display MESSAGE HISTORY when scrolling. Use the PageUp/ PageDown keys to scroll through previous messages. type /help for more info on that command. NB: If running scat via npm start you will need to prefix any command line args with -.įor example: # Start scat from the git checkout with emoji disabled and a month of data if you want less or more, run scat with -days: # this would pull in a month of dataĮmojis are supported by default, to disable run scat with -no-emoji: # This will prevent :smiley: being displayed as 😊 command line argumentsīy default scat pulls in 7 days of messages. If you have a notification in the top right corner, you can use control-u to cycle through your unread messages. type a message and hit enter and it will publish a scat_message to your feed

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