From kde-community Thu Dec 05 12:04:35 2019 From: Jonathan Riddell Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:04:35 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: Please don't make planet.kde.org into a politics feed Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=157554750431116 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--0000000000004785f20598f3bc21" --0000000000004785f20598f3bc21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Planet KDE exists to allow KDE people to share information about themselves as well as their KDE contributions. A hard Brexit will affect KDE significantly which is why I include it here. The idea that talking about politics is dangerous or anti-social really scares me and is one reason why the populists have taken over so much of the political discussion currently. I often get people thanking me for my political opinion blogs. If you don=E2=80=99t want to read it then don=E2=80=99t read it. The rule we came up with is "The majority of content in your blog should be about KDE and your work on KDE. Blog posts about personal subjects are also encouraged since Planet KDE is a chance to learn more about the developers behind KDE." I've never heard anyone suggest changes to that rule. Jonathan On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 11:53, Christian Loosli wrote: > Dear Community, > > I'm 100% sure this topic came up in the past due to the same blog, but I > can't > find it on the mailing list, so I assume it happened on forums or chat: > > currently the top blog post on planet.kde.org is about voting for a > specific > political party. I understand that in these times there are many countrie= s > with heated and important political debates, and some very important > global > topics as well. However, these already occupy all the news site. > Now if every blog appearing on the planet would target a political subjec= t > that is very important to the blogger, planet.kde.org would be yet > another > political news/opinions feed. > > If I want politics, I go to one of these. If I want to read about KDE, I > go to > planet.kde.org. > > Please dear bloggers: there are categories, and you can choose which of > your > blogs do show up on the planet. I know that some topics are very importan= t > to > you and obviously you are free to blog about them, but please keep the > planet.kde.org feed free of it, so it doesn't become a mess where it's > hard to > find the content people actually go there for. > > Thanks and kind regards, > > Christian > > > --0000000000004785f20598f3bc21 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Planet KDE exists to allow KDE people to share inform= ation about=20 themselves as well as their KDE contributions. A hard Brexit will=20 affect KDE significantly which is why I include it here.=C2=A0 The idea tha= t talking about politics is dangerous or anti-social really scares me and i= s one reason why the populists have taken over so much of the political dis= cussion currently. I often get people thanking me for my=20 political opinion blogs. If you don=E2=80=99t want to read it then don=E2= =80=99t read=20 it.

The rule we came up with is "The majority= of content in your blog should be about KDE and your work=20 on KDE. Blog posts about personal subjects are also encouraged since=20 Planet KDE is a chance to learn more about the developers behind KDE."= =C2=A0 I've never heard anyone suggest changes to that rule.
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Jonathan


On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 11:53= , Christian Loosli <kde@fuchsnet.ch> wrote:
De= ar Community,

I'm 100% sure this topic came up in the past due to the same blog, but = I can't
find it on the mailing list, so I assume it happened on forums or chat:
currently the top blog post on planet.kde.org is about voting for a specifi= c
political party. I understand that in these times there are many countries =
with heated and important political debates, and some very important global=
topics as well. However, these already occupy all the news site.
Now if every blog appearing on the planet would target a political subject =
that is very important to the blogger, planet.kde.org would be yet another =
political news/opinions feed.

If I want politics, I go to one of these. If I want to read about KDE, I go= to
plan= et.kde.org.=C2=A0

Please dear bloggers: there are categories, and you can choose which of you= r
blogs do show up on the planet. I know that some topics are very important = to
you and obviously you are free to blog about them, but please keep the
plan= et.kde.org feed free of it, so it doesn't become a mess where it= 9;s hard to
find the content people actually go there for.

Thanks and kind regards,

Christian


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