* Russ Allbery:
> Meeting one's fellow developer in person also (at least for me) helped a
> lot in turning random political content I strongly disagree with from
> something that pissed me off into something that just makes me roll my
> eyes and remember the good conversation we had. :)
This ce
On 2010-11-11, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Yes, please subscribe me to that group. For me, the planet is a window
> to the lives of the people that form up this social group. We share a
> technical affinity, so we tend to write technical topics, but we write
> about our political views - As much as we wr
Ben Finney dijo [Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:06:26AM +1100]:
> (...)
> Hopefully the suggestion to split non-Debian topics out to a separate
> feed (or, equivalently, to provide a Debian-topics-only feed which is
> the only one provided on Planet Debian) will be followed more often.
Many of us don't b
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:28:47PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Could we please make and enforce a rule that no general political
> content is published on planet.debian.org and similar sites?
I happen to like the sometimes strange mix of posts on planet! Some
directly Debian related, some techni
Joey Hess writes:
> Anyway, it seems to me that, based on this thread, certian posts on
> Planet Debian have had a trollish nature. After all, they've gotten us
> calling each other names like "condescending" and "parochial".
Russ didn't call me condescending; he described part of my message tha
On 11/04/2010 07:06 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Agreed. Others have expressed the position that reading occasional
non-Debian posts in the Planet Debian flow helps to relate to other
members as people with lives outside Debian; that seems something of
value that we should be careful not to sacrifice c
I can't support a rule like "no political content" on Planet Debian,
because it's a horrily vague standard that could probably be used by
anyone to agitate against any content they didn't like.
Now, if Planet Debian were not running on Planet, but instead on
ikiwiki, it would be easy for anyone to
Ben Finney writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>> Anyway, presumably decent feed reader software either has or could have
>> added to it a similar feature to suppress particular posts from the
>> collective feed by various criteria. The authorship information is in
>> the feed for a feed reader to do
Russ Allbery writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
> > Russ Allbery writes:
>
> >> The little minus next to someone's name seems to deal with that
> >> reasonably well if one doesn't feel up to ignoring it.
>
> > I get no “little minus” next to anyone's name on the Planet Debian
> > syndication feed. Ar
Ben Finney writes:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>> The little minus next to someone's name seems to deal with that
>> reasonably well if one doesn't feel up to ignoring it.
> I get no “little minus” next to anyone's name on the Planet Debian
> syndication feed. Are you perhaps conflating the interfac
Russ Allbery writes:
> The little minus next to someone's name seems to deal with that
> reasonably well if one doesn't feel up to ignoring it.
I get no “little minus” next to anyone's name on the Planet Debian
syndication feed. Are you perhaps conflating the interface-independent
information co
Florian Weimer writes:
> Could we please make and enforce a rule that no general political
> content is published on planet.debian.org and similar sites?
> I understand that people have different political views, and I generally
> appreciate that. We have developers from countries who are not o
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Could we please make and enforce a rule that no general political
> content is published on planet.debian.org and similar sites?
Occasional political commentary is perfectly ok; if someone is going
to be putting lots of it in their blog that wouldn't be
Could we please make and enforce a rule that no general political
content is published on planet.debian.org and similar sites?
I understand that people have different political views, and I
generally appreciate that. We have developers from countries who are
not on the most amicable terms, and co
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