Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Raphael Hertzog Hi, | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there | other concerns to add? My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the flattr buttons do look like begging to me. I'd rather not be paid at all than be paid tiny amounts for

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
(Dropped planet@ and leader@, who are probably not intrested in this anymore.) On to, 2010-11-11 at 20:06 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:03:38PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshep...@gmail.com [2010-11-11 16:14:37 CET]: snippage What one does on

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:27:01AM +, Philip Hands wrote: How about making the planet disarm all links that point elsewhere than the same domain as the blog post that contains it? Perhaps a little too draconian? Yes, because there can be genuine reasons for doing so. E.g., when I want to

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:24, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Raphael Hertzog Hi, | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there | other concerns to add? My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the flattr buttons do look like

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: It's not begging in a sense that someone IS doing some work. It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you can reward me with a few cents. There simply is nothing distasteful about that. In fact, I find it courageous,

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you | can reward me with a few cents. There simply is nothing distasteful | about that. You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too low value on other, similar work, so by taking

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 17:56, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: It's not begging in a sense that someone IS doing some work. It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you can reward me with a few cents. There

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 18:27, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you | can reward me with a few cents. There simply is nothing distasteful | about that. You don't think so.  I do.  One of the

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Tshepang Lekhonkhobe | It's more like use this thing that I produced, and if you want, you | can reward me with a few cents. There simply is nothing distasteful | about that. You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:24:32AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Raphael Hertzog Hi, | Are those sentences correctly representing your concerns? Are there | other concerns to add? My concern is actually more that I don't like people begging, and the flattr buttons do look like

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Gilbert Hi, | On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | You don't think so. I do. One of the reasons is it puts a, IMO too | low value on other, similar work, so by taking petty donations for | small pieces of work, you are lowering the value of my work too.