I think that this is an excellent idea. To show activities over here that are attractive to the typical r/wetshaving nerd.
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djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks agoOne thing I really enjoyed while making the Audio Book Club Shaves podcasts was the coordinated group shaves.
It’s different from Theme Thursdays in that it needs prep. In essence:
- People propose soaps they want to “discuss”.
- Popular proposals get selected (presumably by Lemmy vote?).
- The person who proposes a selected soap sends smushes to the participants.
- We shave with the soap all on the same day, sharing our experience.
It sounds more complicated than it is, and it creates a strong group event feeling.
It would also have the spillover effect you mentioned over to Reddit in the form of @walden@sub.wetshaving.social’s, @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social’s, @sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social’s and my SOTD posts (assuming they’d participate) because we still regularly post in both forums.
Thoughts?
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Yay, I think this is going to be fun!
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
That sounds extremely cool!
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Should we give it a go in July?
The only concern I have is that quite a few of us might do AA so after one edition, there would already be a break, but that’s a minor obstacle
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Let’s do this!
And a pause in August is not that much of an issue, IMO. Eversthing shuts down in August.
How should we procede for nominating a soap?
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
How about we choose a working title (wetshaving.social, maybe?) and sketch out the idea in a stand-alone post to get everyone’s input?
Basically, we need to agree on
- a date for the group shave (probably best to choose a Wednesday, Saturday, or Sunday, to avoid clashing with Mammoth Monday, Tabac Tuesday, Theme Thursday, or Fougère Friday.)
- a cutoff date by which to choose the soap so we have enough time for smushes to reach the particpants (2 weeks before? 3?)
- start a pinned voting thread.
What do you think?
whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
RIP ABC
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
🥲
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Ha, I never knew how that worked. I just heard “podcast” and assumed you all shaved together during the podcast like those fellas on YouTube sometimes.
I like this a lot more than that option!
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, we shaved together on the podcast. I’m proposing a less involved adaptation of the concept for the lemmy 😅
sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Great idea! I’m in!
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 3 weeks ago
Fantastic! This is going to be fun!