On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Nikos Roussos <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Right but they do not try and tell you what content is appropriate or not
and that is the major distinction here. I think Gerv has made some good
discussion on this although it seems his replies were split into a
different thread.
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