Old guard on guard.
Let's keep old practice apart from old intentions.
Practice back then was to blog at all, and to have that on planet.
There wasn't much intention behind that, at least not from my side, both
as a consumer and a producer.
Getting to know people to some extent was fall out, at best. And you
probably didn't learn much about people beyond extrovert and introvert,
too ;-)
Axel
On 12/13/14 7:36 PM, Majken Connor wrote:
I think we may need to have an old guard/new guard discussion on this. The
nature of planet has shifted in a similar way to the way an organization
shifts. When planet was created there were few enough blogs aggregated that
it was a good way to get to better know people outside of a Mozilla
context. Last time we had a debate about planet, this was the crux of the
issue, whether or not this was planet's purpose. I would suggest that we
explicitly call out the fact that the audience is now too large (and isn't
just Mozillians), and the stream of content way too high for planet to be
suitable for this purpose anymore.
We can wish it was still suitable and we can agree that getting to know
each other personally is an important part of building our community, but
that doesn't make planet the right tool for the job.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Mike Hoye <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2014-12-12 12:03 PM, Michael Kelly wrote:
Neat! A few questions:
- What's a position statement? I just don't know specifically what that
term means. :P
What we're aiming for here is, in the broadest sense:
- "I invite my fellow Mozillians to discuss this controversial topic, that
matters to me, in this other forum" is OK, but
- "On this controversial topic, this is the only correct position to hold"
is not OK.
I believe that we become stronger as a community for the first, and worse
off for the second.
- When you say "a topic others may find challenging", do you mean
difficult to understand, or do you mean touchy/controversial?
We mean touchy/controversial. If you have a solution to P=NP, go right
ahead. If you have a solution to a middle-eastern geopolitical issue,
consider inviting people to have that discussion somwhere not-Planet.
- Just to clarify, does any of this apply to controversial topics that
are relevant to Mozilla? Is there more leeway for strong opinions on our
controversies?
Mozilla-relevant content has a home in Planet, even if it's hard to talk
about.
On "leeway": we're not proposing cutting people off for having strong
opinions, or even content moderation in anything but the most egregious
cases. We're asking that people be explicit in their decisions to send
posts to Planet, and that as a courtesy to fellow Mozillians, when they
decide to use that platform for topics they care about that aren't
precisely on-point, that it be noted as such up front.
- mhoye
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