<html><head></head><body>But they don't, so your calculation is about solving a problem that doesn't currently exist.<br><br><br>Cheers,<br>Eike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 5, 2019 1:21:08 PM GMT+01:00, Christian Loosli <kde@fuchsnet.ch> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">For me it's a rather simple calculation: if every contributor on planet would <br>post as many articles on politics as e.g. you do, the planet would be simply <br>overcrowded with it. <br><br>Given we already have filters for languages, maybe there could be a filter for <br>non-KDE stuff, so that people who to go planet.kde to read about, well, KDE, <br>could filter all that stuff out.<br><br>Kind regards, <br><br>Christian <br><br>Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 13:04:35 CET schrieb Jonathan Riddell:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Planet KDE exists to allow KDE people to share information about themselves<br>as well as their KDE contributions. A hard Brexit will affect KDE<br>significantly which is why I include it here. The idea that talking about<br>politics is dangerous or anti-social really scares me and is one reason why<br>the populists have taken over so much of the political discussion<br>currently. I often get people thanking me for my political opinion blogs.<br>If you don’t want to read it then don’t read it.<br><br>The rule we came up with is "The majority of content in your blog should be<br>about KDE and your work on KDE. Blog posts about personal subjects are also<br>encouraged since Planet KDE is a chance to learn more about the developers<br>behind KDE." I've never heard anyone suggest changes to that rule.<br><br>Jonathan<br><br>On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 11:53, Christian Loosli <kde@fuchsnet.ch> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear Community,<br><br>I'm 100% sure this topic came up in the past due to the same blog, but I<br>can't<br>find it on the mailing list, so I assume it happened on forums or chat:<br><br>currently the top blog post on planet.kde.org is about voting for a<br>specific<br>political party. I understand that in these times there are many countries<br>with heated and important political debates, and some very important<br>global<br>topics as well. However, these already occupy all the news site.<br>Now if every blog appearing on the planet would target a political subject<br>that is very important to the blogger, planet.kde.org would be yet<br>another<br>political news/opinions feed.<br><br>If I want politics, I go to one of these. If I want to read about KDE, I<br>go to<br>planet.kde.org.<br><br>Please dear bloggers: there are categories, and you can choose which of<br>your<br>blogs do show up on the planet. I know that some topics are very important<br>to<br>you and obviously you are free to blog about them, but please keep the<br>planet.kde.org feed free of it, so it doesn't become a mess where it's<br>hard to<br>find the content people actually go there for.<br><br>Thanks and kind regards,<br><br>Christian<br></blockquote></blockquote><br><br><br><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>