My Appeal to Walton
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Chef
Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.
While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.
The Most Important Stuff
One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.
Austin Re Social Media statement: Your heart and thought process are in the correct place (even if you are “The Orange One”). Well said! I will let you know that many of “my people” have said to me that “Hey, I saw them on YouTube while watching a presentation on X”. Thinking that’s one of the best drivers to YOU. I do understand the “feelings” about that media because of the politics. But, as a teaching medium, it’s fantastic. Now, go and have another great day and keep everyone’s taste buds alive.
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I don’t do Facebook, don’t have time in my life for it, But I love what we have here, Sharing information and Ideas.
Dave
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As someone new to this hobby, and new to Walton’s, I do hope that you keep your YouTube presence up, simply because that’s how I found you, and the quality of the videos and the information led me here, and, ultimately, to spending the first $300 of what I assume will be many hundreds of dollars with your store. Now that I’ve found you, that won’t change without YouTube, but I am sure there are many like me who have not found you who would be good customers out there lurking in YT land, maybe not even realizing they want to process meat yet.
Midwest_kc Yep, me as well found them on the Tubes.
And I’ve found within this place an active group of decent people that remember when they too didn’t know chit. I’m in the stage of trying to figure out if processing meats could be a hobby of mine, and I know who I’ll be trading money for equipment and tools is. -
Chef Thank you for bringing light to this subject. I do not see your post as being politically driven, like some may have inferred. It is simply a matter of censorship by social media platforms attempting to stifle free speech. Thanks again for being brave enough to speak up.
GWG8541 Thank you Also assume you are a Marine - Thank you for your service.
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Austin I should have thought this out more fully when I encouraged you to post that…It very well might be the most upvoted single response for Meatgistics and I NEED to have everything! Get ready for an emotionally manipulative post coming from me some time soon so I can take that back! Just kidding, and Im not calling your post manipulative! I only occasionally post thing on Instagram, other than that I have nothing to do with Social Media, interesting idea that meatgistics is a replacement for me. I hadn’t considered that. PapaSop did you notice he used community and not the other word? Midwest_kc I don’t think we will ever get rid of youtube but we might eventually not make it a focus. Everything we do will still find its way there though for the foreseeable future. We have 30k subs on youtube and about 14k meatgistics users though. THe meatgistics is growing much faster than youtube and our Meatgistics users are a lot more prized by us than the youtube subs!
Get more help with your processing questions and learn more about processing meat by subscribing to our waltonsinc.com youtube page at https://wltns.link/waltonstv I am a Gorilla, love yourself
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Chef
Team-Orange Team-Blue Regular-Contributors Power-User
Sorry about not responding to this sooner. It has been so crazy here lately, and I didn’t want to give this just a 2 second response.I wrote a response multiple times, and I’m scrapping it all to be a bit briefer (Yes, this one is briefer than my first couple takes at writing something! Haha!)
Before the events of the last few months, I already had a distaste for social media for a variety of reasons, so I started to write out why I disliked them, and I didn’t personally use them. I have a lot of personal animosity towards social media, but I know a lot of people enjoy it and it provides value to them. I would write a 20 page novel if I could, but I decided I should cut a lot of that out because I ultimately hope everyone makes the choice that makes them happy and they also allow me to make the choices that make me happy, and I am personally happy by not using social media.Walton’s ultimately uses various social media platforms because that is where many of our customers spend a lot of their time, they expect to interact with us there, and they find value in it. While we use them, I don’t want to let them use us. While they provide a benefit to our customers and thus a benefit to us, we will probably remain involved and have a page/channel to some extent on different platforms. We had been discussing previously if Twitter specifically was providing any value to us for a long time, and we had already made the decision to wind down what we did there. We simply no longer got a benefit from it and I don’t think many customers were either, so as of now, I believe we are mostly done with being very active on Twitter. Our account does remain there and will continue to, but it won’t receive much attention going forward because it doesn’t benefit our customers or us. While Facebook continues to benefit our customers who choose to use it, we will probably remain involved to some extent. I have historically chosen to not spend money with them, but I prioritize trying to use them (or any other social media platform) instead of letting them use us. If we and/or our customers stop getting a benefit from using them, then we will stop using them.
While I personally dislike social media in general, I understand everyone gets to make their own choice about whether they use it or not. I choose not to use it personally, but while people use the various platforms, we will try to be available as a company to our customers through the various channels they prefer. That does have a limit, and our involvement may only go so far as to the specific needs and benefits that it brings to our customers. If it stops being of a benefit to our customers, or somewhere else becomes a more appealing place, we would and will be changing our focus. I can say that we will be changing some of our focus. I know there are many other social media platforms out there that have some very strong and loyal user bases that we have not used in the past, and we have and are creating channels on some new platforms. If they prove to be beneficial to us and our customers that use them, we’ll continue to focus more heavily on them than others. We will continue to try to adapt to where our customers are investing their time.
The Most Important Stuff
One of the “alternative” platforms out there, in my opinion, is Meatgistics. It is in a sense, some level, part, or piece of a social media. I wouldn’t put it in that exact category, but it does have some similarities. Meatgistics is where I prefer and we do spend most of our time and money, particularly when it comes to direct customer interactions. I very much prefer having our own platform for sharing, communicating, and interacting with customers (and even people who aren’t customers). I think Meatgistics has been a place that has grown to be a very well respected place where everyone is friendly, kind, supportive, and very much like a family (Even Team Blue, as crazy as they are, hold a special place in my heart! Hahaha!). It is unlike other sites, platforms, and places out there on the web for the quality of community that has been developed. We could have spent our time and money on building a connection with people through an existing social media and a group page there, but we decided to forge our own path and create our own place where people could communicate freely with one another and us and we weren’t beholden to someone or something else. While other social media platforms will always have some place in what we do, Meatgistics will always be our main focus, our main area of communication, and our preferred place to interact with everyone out there. Everyone has their own choice to make though on where they spend their time. Many people won’t ever use Meatgistics because it is not as convenient to them as Facebook, or maybe it is just too unfamiliar, or whatever other reason people may have, but we can choose to make this the one place that receives most of our attention, time, and money, and we can try and foster an environment that is different from other places out there. That is the amazing thing that I love, the fact that everyone is free to make their own choices. My hope is that everyone is also able to respect my choices and let me be free to choose what I want to do, just as I don’t want to interfere with what they choose to do, even when I don’t agree with them. My choice and loyalty will always lie with the users of Meatgistics and the people here. Even if we have or don’t have a presence on other platforms, Meatgistics will always be the one platform we will spend our focus on.
Austin I don’t do much on social media sights, I am on a couple for home processing, sausage making sights. I am constantly pointing people to meatgistics and all that I have told about it give it a thumbs up.
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Austin I should have thought this out more fully when I encouraged you to post that…It very well might be the most upvoted single response for Meatgistics and I NEED to have everything! Get ready for an emotionally manipulative post coming from me some time soon so I can take that back! Just kidding, and Im not calling your post manipulative! I only occasionally post thing on Instagram, other than that I have nothing to do with Social Media, interesting idea that meatgistics is a replacement for me. I hadn’t considered that. PapaSop did you notice he used community and not the other word? Midwest_kc I don’t think we will ever get rid of youtube but we might eventually not make it a focus. Everything we do will still find its way there though for the foreseeable future. We have 30k subs on youtube and about 14k meatgistics users though. THe meatgistics is growing much faster than youtube and our Meatgistics users are a lot more prized by us than the youtube subs!
Jonathon you know Team-Orange and our leader Austin does everything better. We also have no emotion to be manipulated. Just sayin.
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Austin I should have thought this out more fully when I encouraged you to post that…It very well might be the most upvoted single response for Meatgistics and I NEED to have everything! Get ready for an emotionally manipulative post coming from me some time soon so I can take that back! Just kidding, and Im not calling your post manipulative! I only occasionally post thing on Instagram, other than that I have nothing to do with Social Media, interesting idea that meatgistics is a replacement for me. I hadn’t considered that. PapaSop did you notice he used community and not the other word? Midwest_kc I don’t think we will ever get rid of youtube but we might eventually not make it a focus. Everything we do will still find its way there though for the foreseeable future. We have 30k subs on youtube and about 14k meatgistics users though. THe meatgistics is growing much faster than youtube and our Meatgistics users are a lot more prized by us than the youtube subs!
Jonathon How many upvotes did Austin give himself? We all know he is not above that!
May need to check for bots.Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks
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Hears what signifies this conversation.
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I am new here. Right now I am lost. Last week I made 60 pounds of assorted sausage. Still looking for good recipe for summer sausage.
caterjay Since none of the Team-Blue members have offered this up, I’ll post this. It’s Jonathon making Summer Sausage. I used it and I loved it! My seasoning blend was the H Summer Sausage Blend. Oh and switch sides. Orange is greater than blue.
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zbigjeff lol nice one! caterjay https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/topic/762/cured-sausage-107-basics-for-making-summer-sausage and https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/topic/1108/cured-sausage-206-advanced-cured-sausage-processing are two good summer sausage how to.
badfire2625 That’s so obviously untrue that it doesn’t deserve a response…wait a minute
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Austin I should have thought this out more fully when I encouraged you to post that…It very well might be the most upvoted single response for Meatgistics and I NEED to have everything! Get ready for an emotionally manipulative post coming from me some time soon so I can take that back! Just kidding, and Im not calling your post manipulative! I only occasionally post thing on Instagram, other than that I have nothing to do with Social Media, interesting idea that meatgistics is a replacement for me. I hadn’t considered that. PapaSop did you notice he used community and not the other word? Midwest_kc I don’t think we will ever get rid of youtube but we might eventually not make it a focus. Everything we do will still find its way there though for the foreseeable future. We have 30k subs on youtube and about 14k meatgistics users though. THe meatgistics is growing much faster than youtube and our Meatgistics users are a lot more prized by us than the youtube subs!
Jonathon
I did notice that. It’s only right. This is a “community”. -
caterjay I love the community and the banter here. It’s nothing like Republicans and Democrats. This is all in good fun. I’ve not seen one bad egg in this whole community. Hopefully my joking is seen as it is intended. Just harmless fun.
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caterjay I love the community and the banter here. It’s nothing like Republicans and Democrats. This is all in good fun. I’ve not seen one bad egg in this whole community. Hopefully my joking is seen as it is intended. Just harmless fun.
badfire2625
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caterjay I love the community and the banter here. It’s nothing like Republicans and Democrats. This is all in good fun. I’ve not seen one bad egg in this whole community. Hopefully my joking is seen as it is intended. Just harmless fun.
badfire2625 This is a great group and everyone likes to have fun with each other, all in good fun. ( Orange Rules Though)
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Love the fun, camaraderie, & of course the eaten, uh cookin. Especially the Blue dishes!
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