I just noticed that I keep censoring myself. This time I wanted to respond to zeenix’s words about 9/11. I don’t want to put this on a planet like GNOME’s, as that would wake a bunch of politic-trolls up. Nor is it always interesting for people who want to know about GNOME things. I also don’t always feel comfortable exposing such political views to a huge amount of people.
For OLPC’s planet I made a new category so that they can filter the ones that are not relevant for their project. Perhaps this would be a good idea for GNOME’s planet too? Although I kinda like the fact that sometimes non-GNOME-related blog items appear on GNOME’s planet too. Like cooking tips and pictures of people building their houses. That’s just fantastic and keeps Luis’s idea that GNOME is people alive. In my opinion that is important too.
My personal political views are usually not mainstream and a lot like Chomsky’s. Not everybody wants me to put them on GNOME’s planet. Last time at least one person actually asked me in private not to blog about this subject anymore, just because I’m syndicated on GNOME’s planet.
I can imagine that an organization like OLPC doesn’t want such items on its sites (for example to avoid that silly journalists make a stupid story about it). I would understand it if the GNOME organization has the same concerns. Yet I would hate it if the only allowed subjects on GNOME’s planet would be related-to-GNOME ones.
How do we solve this, or isn’t this a problem and should the whiners just shut up in stead?
ps. For planet maintainers who want to already solve it for my case, I have this category on my blog. Only items about informatics and programming appear here.
If Gnome set up 2 Planets, lets say Gnome Planet and Gnome Planet Lite, Gnome Planet Lite could target the gnome tagged feeds (when available) and Gnome Planet could target the full feed, then Planet visitor could take their pick depending on their own preference.
Urgh, I don’t like the idea at all of filtering “bozos” as suggested by Federico. While I’m one of those who cringe at the mention of Chomsky, I would rather endure that than to resort to filtering a person completely. However, Johannes Schmid managed to make Planet GNOME exclude his German-language posts; by means of tags if I understand it correctly. So it’s certainly possible already, and I think it’s the way to go.