But they don't, so your calculation is about solving a problem that doesn't currently exist.
Cheers, Eike On December 5, 2019 1:21:08 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Loosli <[email protected]> wrote: >For me it's a rather simple calculation: if every contributor on planet >would >post as many articles on politics as e.g. you do, the planet would be >simply >overcrowded with it. > >Given we already have filters for languages, maybe there could be a >filter for >non-KDE stuff, so that people who to go planet.kde to read about, well, >KDE, >could filter all that stuff out. > >Kind regards, > >Christian > >Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 13:04:35 CET schrieb Jonathan Riddell: >> 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 <[email protected]> >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 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
