I agree with you Pine, but also with Jeff - there's a difference in
tweeting about the community's interests and about the staff members'
interests, even if the staff are also community :)

No skin off my nose in this case really. Was just a suggestion, and like
all suggestions, can be declined!

Joe

On 14 April 2016 at 18:16, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm. I think that WMF already posted about Ed's battleships if I recall
> correctly. I think that's like someone posting about their favorite flower,
> animal, vacation spot, economist, car brand, or television series. Just as
> on Wikipedia, people tend to write about subjects that they're interested
> in. If we prohibited people from writing about all of their personal
> interests, then we would have a very small number of writers.
>
> That said, what I would be thinking about are noteability and undue
> weight. For example, someone tweetung daily from a WMF account about
> different types of rocks would be a problem as that would likely give undue
> weight to that subject.
>
> I'm sensitive to COI as well, but it's possible to be so sensitive to it
> that lots of benign activities would fall under the definition of COI.
>
> Pine
>
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