Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Gilbert Hi, | On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too | > low value on other, similar work, so by taking petty donations for | > small pieces of work, you are lowering the value of my work to

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:24:32AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Raphael Hertzog > > Hi, > > | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there > | other concerns to add? > > My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the > flattr buttons do look l

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > > | It's more like "use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you > | can reward me with a few cents". There simply is nothing distasteful > | about that. > > You don't think so. I do. One of the reaso

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:27, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > > | It's more like "use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you > | can reward me with a few cents". There simply is nothing distasteful > | about that. > > You don't think so.  I do.  One of the reasons is

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 17:56, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> It's not begging in a sense that someone IS doing some work. It's more >> like "use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you can reward >> me with a few cents". There simply

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | It's more like "use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you | can reward me with a few cents". There simply is nothing distasteful | about that. You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too low value on other, similar work, so by taking p

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > It's not begging in a sense that someone IS doing some work. It's more > like "use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you can reward > me with a few cents". There simply is nothing distasteful about that. > In fact, I find it courage

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:24, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Raphael Hertzog > > Hi, > > | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there > | other concerns to add? > > My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the > flattr buttons do look like begging to

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:27:01AM +, Philip Hands wrote: > How about making the planet disarm all links that point elsewhere than > the same domain as the blog post that contains it? Perhaps a little > too draconian? Yes, because there can be genuine reasons for doing so. E.g., when I want

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
(Dropped planet@ and leader@, who are probably not intrested in this anymore.) On to, 2010-11-11 at 20:06 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:03:38PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [2010-11-11 16:14:37 CET]: > > > What one does on their own blog is th

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Raphael Hertzog Hi, | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there | other concerns to add? My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the flattr buttons do look like begging to me. I'd rather not be paid at all than be paid tiny amounts for wor