On 12/15/2014 04:58 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>> To that end, we are going to propose that Planet have a participation
>> policy including words to the effect that "in discussing contentious or
>> personal topics outside of Mozilla's mission, please consider invitations
>> to conversation welcome, position statements not, and exercise your
>> judgement with the growth of a kind and inclusive community in mind."
>>
>> Further, that we ask Planet's participating authors to:
>>
>> - add a "mozilla" tag to posts that are relevant to Mozilla, so that it's
>> explicit that their inclusion in Planet is deliberate, and
>> - when addressing the community on a topic others may find challenging,
>> that there be a brief disclaimer at the top of those posts outlining the
>> contents. We intend to provide boilerplate text and HTML snippets people
>> can paste into posts to make that as painless as possible, though people
>> can always roll their own.
>>
>>
>> Our hope is that this small up-front investment will lead to Planet's
>> content being generally more focused without costing anyone the opportunity
>> to learn about, learn from and grow with other Mozillians who share their
>> values or beliefs.
>>
> Focused on what? Planet's were not created with the idea of being focused
> on any specific content or topic but instead were created to give a glimpse
> into the lives of people who work on a Open Source project.

That's not always true. It depends on the project. Many projects demand
or suggest you use a specific tag/category feed for their planet.

~nikos


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Nikos Roussos
https://mozillians.org/u/comzeradd
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