On 30/10/2013 09:10, Reed Loden wrote:
The Planet team has always felt that Planet is meant to encompass whatever people wish to share from their blogs, not just Mozilla stuff.
Not always. When my blog was syndicated on pmo, I was asked to create a specific feed for english-only code-or-web-standards-only articles. It's still the case today. My more personal articles are not syndicated on pmo.
The Planet team will not censor things just because they are not about Mozilla, and speaking specifically about Matěj's post, we definitely won't censor something speaking about a person's religious faith when it isn't derogatory in any way, shape, or form towards others (basically, it's not "supporting exclusionary practices", so it's fine).
Right, and Mozilla also wants my total lack of faith and my certitude that religions and beliefs in God's existence are unfortunate remnants from Prehistory.
Please take a look at Mozilla's Community Participation Guidelines (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/), especially the "Inclusion and Diversity" section.
I'm raising this issue here exactly because of the next section of that document, section ii. I have the feeling the number of religious posts
on bmo increase, month after month, become more proselyte, and I feel this is wrong for diversity on one hand, and productivity of pmo readers on another. If you feel I can give my opinion about this, say I am fed up with religious articles on pmo on my blog, and have it syndicated on pmo itself w/o receiving flames in return, fine, I'll do it. But back to the original question: I trust much more the pmo drivers - they demonstrated in the past a superb resistance to trouble-makers - than an automated process. Even if it's time-consuming, pmo is not only the community's syndicator; it's also a very serious productivity tool for all of us and an important channel of transmission of information. Dirkjan wrote:
So personally I think the policy should change so that (a) non-Mozilla-related posts are discouraged from the main Planet (although there could be a separate planet with all the non-Mozilla-related posts included, for those who want it), and possibly (b) rethink the separation of the main and projects planets.
I disagree. Don't change the policy. It's well ironed. In the current case, I have a feeling I'm sharing here. My feeling may be triggered by personal overreaction (for example) or whatever. The filter the policy is currently giving is the right one, and rare 'a posteriori' action is better than common 'a priori' censorship. </Daniel> _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
