On Mar 7, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Tim Ruppert wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 12:56 PM, David E Jones wrote: > >> >> On Mar 7, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 7, 2010, at 8:08 PM, David E Jones wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:51 AM, Tim Ruppert wrote: >>>> >>>>> It IS news when there is a new tutorial out there. It is not news when >>>>> you are doing marketing. That sounds like a reasonable place to draw the >>>>> line. For instance, I don't put my blog messages up there when they're >>>>> not going to directly help users - just like Wikipedia, only the facts. >>>>> We haven't put up one message about any of our twitter feeds, social >>>>> networking angles, new websites, all promotion stuff. What Hans put in >>>>> there is straight up promotion. >>>> >>>> What does that have to do with news? This is the most strange definition >>>> of news that I've ever heard... >>>> >>>> Maybe this would be helpful: >>>> >>>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/news >>>> >>>> -David >>>> >>> >>> That's true but some time ago we decided to merge the "blogs" section with >>> the "in the news" section... in fact at that time we could have changed it >>> to "news" or similar... but if we don't like what is happening now we can >>> change the decision and remove the links that you don't like. >> >> That's not quite what I meant. IMO we can do (for the most part) whatever we >> want on the home page, and by we I mean the community acting together >> (moderated by the PMC). >> >> What I have a problem with here is the attempt by Tim to justify one >> behavior and condemn the behavior of others by coming up with some weird >> definition of the word "news", and saying we should draw the line where it >> benefits him and causes problems for others. If we're going to discuss this, >> let's talk plainly about what our goals our and see where they conflict, not >> try to justify and condemn based on BS semantics and "right fighting". >> >> -David >> > > I was only using hte definition that we have used in the past - blogs and > things on the wire - not marketing your own stuff- calling it OFBiz and then > putting a link to your own site. Are you kidding me Jones? Now you think > this is ok too? I've seen everything ...
I guess I missed something, where did I say anything about that? -David
