On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15/12/14 18:59, Mike Connor wrote: > > We're planning to move to an explicit tag model, where we will > > publish only posts that are explicitly tagged as Mozilla. This is > > not intended to exclude off-topic content, but to encourage a degree > > of intentionality around the content individuals choose to publish to > > Planet. > > But "publish only posts that are explicitly tagged as Mozilla" and > "encourage a degree of intentionality around the content individuals > choose to publish" are not quite the same thing. One is a content > policy, the other is an intentionality policy. > > Let me explain with an example: Planet takes all content from my blog > which I tag "syndicate". This includes some Mozilla posts (normally > tagged "mozilla" but some "bugzilla" or other things), and some > non-Mozilla posts. I tag most posts "syndicate" because, up to now, > we've maintained the Planet policy of "send everything", to which I > added the personal caveat "unless it will blow up the community for no > gain". > > So saying "we need intentionality" would be fine - I wouldn't change > anything about what I do now. Saying "we want just posts tagged > 'Mozilla'", means less stuff I write would appear on planet. > > So I think we should distinguish: do we want a content policy, or an > intentionality policy, or both? > > Gerv > +1 I think Gerv hit it on the head... There is already intentional action from most of us and yet Mike has said this is not really a content policy but is seeming like it is the more this is discussed. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
