Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
>> 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. It's not at all clear that they're off-topic posts. That's the point. Many Planet Debian readers who have commented here in the past have said they consider "anything a person affiliated with Debian wants to blog about" to *be* the topic of Planet Debian. > 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. When there is controversy over exactly what is on-topic, it's about the only response that will actually work. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87r5f036bt....@windlord.stanford.edu
