Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > > >> The little minus next to someone's name seems to deal with that > >> reasonably well if one doesn't feel up to ignoring it. > > > I get no “little minus” next to anyone's name on the Planet Debian > > syndication feed. Are you perhaps conflating the interface-independent > > information content of Planet Debian with a single interface to that > > information? > > Yes, that's what I was referring to. > > FWIW, this bit came across as very condescending and immediately made > me angry and defensive, although I got over it. The correction also > seems somewhat unnecessary, since you seem to have understood what I > meant. I was pointing out an interface feature that in the past some > readers haven't known about, for those people who (like I do) go > directly to the web site, and this sort of aggressive-sounding > correction mostly just makes me less likely to post information I > think could be helpful in the future.
Not my intention. I found your assumption that all Planet Debian readers would see a little minus to be quite parochial, so I wanted to find out whether that was the case. I didn't take offense, and didn't intend to cause it. > If you had instead phrased your response more along the lines of "that > works if you're reading directly from the web site I didn't know that to be the case, and wasn't motivated to experiment. > Anyway, presumably decent feed reader software either has or could > have added to it a similar feature to suppress particular posts from > the collective feed by various criteria. The authorship information is > in the feed for a feed reader to do something with. That seems an unreasonable place for the burden. It seems similar to claims that people who don't like off-topic posts can just delete them. True, but irrelevant to the point that off-topic posts are being made. Again, though, I'll note that I don't consider all off-topic traffic necessarily bad; merely that “configure your client better” is a poor response. -- \ “If you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to | `\ buy a new iPod at least once a year.” —Steve Jobs, MSNBC | _o__) interview 2006-05-25 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874obwftox....@benfinney.id.au