See, here’s the thing Donnie, I think the planet should honestly make available all the blogs from a dev who chooses to be on it. I think it’s a silly rule to have it be only on-topic. What is on-topic really? I mean, just because you don’t say (in your case, xorg) in your blog entry, does not mean that what you talk about (even if it is about Constantine getting kicked off) affects your work as a dev. Just as a by the way, constantine’s kicked-offness doesn’t affect me, personally, but I wanted to see how much off-topic I could get with this post. so ha! Anyway, I do think it’s a bit silly to have to go to three different sites to read your blog, instead of one-stop shopping. Kulleen out.
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To me, any gentoo/OSS related topics are great for the planet, but I don’t see why us needing to know that you scratched your ass for the 13th time that night has anything to do with Gentoo development. If people want to know about other personal stuff they can just get to their blog and see those other topics themselves. We do include a link to their main blog site afaik.
You obviously do not read the blog in question. The problem was not the off-topic posts. It was the one liners: http://www.livejournal.com/users/spyderous/18949.html
That is why I added a filter to move all his blog posts to the trash. It was not the off topic posts. I don’t mind those at all. None of the other Gentoo Planet readers I know had issues with off topic. But we all made fun of his one liner posts. They just seemed a waste of bandwidth by someone with too much time on his hands. I don’t know him, just an impression.
Actually, Donnie is one of the bloggers that I read regulary, Brian 🙂 I love his posts, personally. I do, however, see your point. But when I look around at other planets (to address both Rame and Brian here), I don’t see them filtering stuff at all. Take a look at gnome, kde, fdo — the bloggers there just talk about whatever they talk about, which I think is quite a nice thing. Just fyi Rame — I didn’t blog before planet came around — so this is my actual blog site.
Anyway, I think it might be cool to create categories, so that development specific things can be in one place and misc/other/personal/blah can be in the next. Then people are free to rss whatever category they like.
Also, to address Donnie and his time — Donnie is why your X works as fantastically as it does.
I think Donnie heard from his readers because 9 posts in one day, 6 of them within a 2 hour period was a bit much.
You don’t see that on other planets much, and I would think people would complain there too if so.
Why does it matter how many times someone posts? Does it take away space from others? Are you required to read his posts? Who is being hurt by or even negatively affected by multiple blog posts?
Why is it complain-worthy?
Can’t someone just scroll past his post? For any case, whether it is the amount of posts in a specific span of time or content. (as long as content isn’t profane/vulgar, etc.)
I don’t understand the side of this debate that is against Donnie’s content/number of posts.
How is it worth getting upset over? Donnie is just a guy who likes to share with others what he is thinking, things he finds interesting, etc.
It cracks me up further still, that someone that has found a solution to their problem – sending the offensive blog posts in question to the trash – would even have anything else to say. Unless their entire point is to remind us all that they like to make fun of someone.
Why all the haters?