<quote who="Alvaro Lopez Ortega"> > Jeff Waugh wrote, On 13/09/07 11:43: > > > > The planet is not a newspaper or a magazine, it is just a planet. > > > That censorship / editorial line idea doesn't make any sense to me. > > > > I hope that this is a similar effect to that of great design -- you > > don't notice the editorship because Planet is highly readable and > > reflective of the people who are active bloggers in our community. :-) > > Does that mean that if someone isn't an active blogger he has nothing > interesting to write about every now and then?
That's a pretty bizaare interpretation of what I wrote. :-) > Besides, that would need someone to be over the good and the bad to make > the decision of whether a post is worth to be in the planet or not... and > I'd like to think that nobody would step forward to take over that > position. Editorship doesn't mean intrusive oversight of every post. It means there's a benchmark for inclusion. I'm summarising how I go through that decision at the moment [1]. - Jeff [1] I did tell myself not to get involved in the discussion and just post this once I'd finished it, but I didn't want to let the conversation go off the rails with all the conspiracy theory crap. -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "I think hot Chinese girls who kick ass are the wave of the future, as far as films go." - Cody Russell _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list