Because it's going to become all manner of fun, i feel i need to comment that Jonathan's statement here is my feelings on the situation as well.
On Thursday, 5 December 2019 12:04:35 GMT Jonathan Riddell wrote: > 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 <k...@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 -- ..dan / leinir.. http://leinir.dk/