Planet Fedora guidelines?

[Steven Parrish]

2010/6/18 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:53 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>> If this discussion were happening on an Ubuntu list because they were
>> butthurt about a Fedora contributor joining their planet and put up a
>> huge Fedora logo, I'd be having a damned fine laugh at their expense.
>>
> It would be perfectly rational for them to be bothered by it if that was
> the case.
>
> Why do we have separate planets? Hmmm. Why don't we just have one planet
> with all contributors from all distros?
>
>> Instead, *we* come across as being butthurt about Ooboontoo.  Plain
>> and simple.  Makes me sad.
>
>> But if we can't envision a situation in which a post with a gigantic
>> ooboontoo logo might just belong on the Fedora planet from time to
>> time, then I think we're being reactionary and insecure.  And this
>> isn't just Mo, either.  I think a deep insecurity about ooboontoo has
>> taken
>
> Wow, this is being blown way out of proportion to be an ubuntu-specific
> problem, or to be some deep-rooted psychosis or insecurity. It's not. I
> could really care less about posts having something to do with ubuntu
> being posted to our planet. What seems obnoxious to me is an ubuntu logo
>
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> Front and center on the planet, with two lines of content in a
> non-lingua franca language I certainly don't understand, linking to a
> site that appears to be selling something and is definitely asking for a
> lot more personal information than any free / open project would ever
> need to know.
>
> This, at the same time ubuntu themselves [1] are being attacked on
> identi.ca, I made the assumption (perhaps unfair, perhaps rash) that
> this could be a similar attack on Fedora. Certainly an account *just*
> added to planet behaving in this way seems way more suspicious than say
> a planet contributor who's at least been around for a few weeks and has
> actually made at least one post about *fedora*, who happens to make a
> random post (hopefully with enough lines of content to dwarf the hugeass
> logo) about ubuntu or any other distro.
>
> After seeing that social media attack on ubuntu I am thinking, wow,
> *anybody* could sign up for a FAS account, sign up to get a blog
> syndicated to planet, and just troll away. And we don't even have a
> single guideline to prevent them from doing so.
>
> So I apologize if I was rash in asking if it was a problem, and I
> apologize for jumping to a lot of conclusions. But please let's drop the
> Ubuntu psychosis talk because it really isn't relevant.
>
> ~m
>
> [1] http://identi.ca/markshuttlecock , http://identi.ca/jonabacon ,
> http://identi.ca/sjobs
>
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Having just read this entire thread I think the confusion could have
been avoided had you been as clear in your 1st post as you were in
this one.

SMP