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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Planet posting policy
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:25:10 -0000
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In-Reply-To: <CA+OCxow3T9g-Cpt+B437vgCoYL+y83+LCYVw8Z42SnW3ciUB1g@mail.gmail.com>
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> We currently have a strict posting policy for planet.postgresql.org
> (http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Planet_PostgreSQL), which has been
> applied in such a way that it prevents users posting anything to their
> syndicated blogs which may be remotely considered to be advertising.
> This has tripped up a number of our regular contributors in the past,
> including some senior community members who have posted technical
> content about their work which happens to be on commercial products
> around PostgreSQL.
Can you point to specific examples of blog posts that have been
self-moderated as to not appear on Planet due to our policies?
I think that would help this dicussion if we could see some actual
problematic posts. I am open to changing the wording.
> The primary test here is whether the information provided could be
> considered pure advertising. Consider what the article would look like
> if all references to any products were removed. If there is technical
> content remaining that may be considered interesting to those working
> with or around PostgreSQL, or the post is in some way describing the
> "state of the art" (as related to PostgreSQL), then it is suitable for
> syndication on Planet. In contrast, if all the remains is a list of
> features with no technical discussion around their implementation,
> then that is not suitable for syndication.
I'm not seeing much of a distinction here. The key phrase of the
existing one is "useful PostgreSQL content", which is a fairly
broad description. I'm not sure what "state of the art (as related to
PostgreSQL)" even means, honestly.
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Greg Sabino Mullane [email protected]
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