fifty-six-point-five: a question of consent that i'm asking you all to get a real answer
So: My inbox has been rife with very personal processing of American electoral politics and fallout for the past few weeks, most of it fairly invasive and unwelcome in this household, and the November newsletter is due to ship next Tuesday from this lil’ village to yours.
I do have some feelings about it, which are fully in terms of how I’m going to be interfacing with that topic and situation going forward in this space, and a small bit of why. I do not hash over others’ politics, do colour commentary, or hit the imperative mode; just really my own guidelines for how I’ll be moving with it, and how I got to the current progress point with them. Our logic so far. Y’know.
I don’t know that I actually want it to infect the newsletter space. I don’t know that I want to pretend like none of that figures; I don’t really like big obvious lying. Also, your needs on this matter equal to my own.
This is a question about active consent.
I have a few options here:
— To include it in the November issue as a piece with the rest of the thinking this month (there has been, I’ve been busy despite);
— To do a separate mini-issue with that piece, for the people who want it, in a passive way (don’t open if you’re not feeling it or perhaps open later when you are) or an active one (I will only send you this if you opt in; lil’ more work but this software can do custom audiences, we could play with that);
— Take it somewhere else and we just don’t talk about it here;
— Other methods I have yet to consider.
Your thoughts, everyone? What’s the best decision for you at this moment?
Thanks. Have a chocolate for your time.
