From kde-community Thu Dec 05 12:11:34 2019 From: Laszlo Papp Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:11:34 +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=157554792431264 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--00000000000040ca470598f3d505" --00000000000040ca470598f3d505 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable That is fine. It is your opinion and probably many others'. But it is also a very controversial and divisive topic. I personally find it strange that you vote for unity in case of EU, but not in case of UK. To me, that is a contradiction. But it does not matter what I think. I think it is a fair concern whether to bring it to planet KDE. I am sure KDE would be more respective for a democratic vote on this than the UK has been on Brexit unfortunately. On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:04 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > 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 re= ad 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 >> 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 >> 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 >> important 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 >> >> >> --00000000000040ca470598f3d505 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
That is fine. It is your opinion and probably many others&= #39;. But it is also a very controversial and divisive=C2=A0topic. I person= ally find it strange that you vote for unity in case of EU, but not in case= of UK. To me, that is a contradiction. But it does not matter what I think= . I think it is a fair concern whether to bring it to planet KDE. I am sure= KDE would be more respective for a democratic vote on this than the UK has= been on Brexit unfortunately.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:04 PM Jonathan Ridd= ell <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:
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Planet KDE exists to allow KDE people to share information 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:
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 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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