On December 5, 2019 1:39:57 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Loosli <kde@fuchsnet.ch> wrote:
Kindly don't throw in false accusations, I don't dislike that particular blog
post at all (probably it's even mostly my position), I dislike in general that
things get more and more political, so you it's getting really hard to find
projects and places where you don't have to deal with $topic (insert
controversial stuff like Brexit, Bolsonaro, Trump, Fidesz, ... I'm sure every
country and region has its fair share) because you originally came to these
places for something other than politics.
As the bar has a different height for different people, I already made a
suggestion: simply create a category for it and allow to filter, as we already
allow to filter by language.
Kind regards,
Christian
Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 13:36:36 CET schrieb Eike Hein:
If and when the Planet becomes majority political content, that's a problem
we can acknowledge and deal with at that time I would say. As a community
we're smart enough to understand that it's a different reality from an
occasional post. Let's have that trust.
But let me say it again: We discussed this before. The hypothetical you've
laid out is not a new one. You're not explaining how the situation is
different now from back then and why we need to review the consensus we
already had achieved, which was informed by other thoughts like having the
Planet be a place where we can get to know each other and the cost of
losing a venue for that. The Planet is not a corporate outlet or a news
feed, it's a community aggregator.
Starting a thread because you don't like a particular personal blog post is
not meeting the necessary bar. Let's not prolong it until you come up with
something.
Cheers,
Eike
On December 5, 2019 1:26:58 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Loosli <kde@fuchsnet.ch>
wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 13:24:30 CET schrieb Eike Hein:
But they don't, so your calculation is about solving a problem that
doesn't
currently exist.
I consider that a tricky argument that leads to a slippery slope,
because
whenever people will at political stuff, it will be "but the other
person was
allowed, too!", so in my opinion it's a matter of fairness.
Cheers,
Eike
Kind regards,
Christian
On December 5, 2019 1:21:08 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Loosli
<kde@fuchsnet.ch>
wrote:
For me it's a rather simple calculation: if every contributor on
planet
would
post as many articles on politics as e.g. you do, the planet would
be
simply
overcrowded with it.
Given we already have filters for languages, maybe there could be a
filter for
non-KDE stuff, so that people who to go planet.kde to read about,
well,
KDE,
could filter all that stuff out.
Kind regards,
Christian
Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 13:04:35 CET schrieb Jonathan
Riddell:
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’t want to read it then don’t 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 <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
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