Planet Fedora guidelines?

[inode0]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> On 06/18/2010 05:37 PM, inode0 wrote:
>>
>> Whatever happened to the days when the planet was a place for
>> contributors to express themselves, both personally and
>> professionally, "warts and all?"
>
> Here is a specific example that bothers me: people harassed tatica about
> aggregating on Planet her "Project 365" (photography) to the level she
> stopped bothering about Planet, so now we miss even her excellent series
> of GIMP video tutorials.
> For me this is a perfect example of Planet getting past the threshold of
> being a friendly place.

And this is a great example of a community/non-community failure that
really had nothing to do with the rules of engagement governing the
use of the Fedora Planet.

Prohibitions against girls in bikinis would not have prevented it.
Prohibitions against big ass Ubuntu logos would not have prevented it.
Scaring people into putting mosaic patterns over their forest fairies
would not have prevented it. (By the way, if I were to choose the
Fedora Planet post of the year it would go to that last one for making
me laugh out loud.)

People problems largely cannot be solved by policies as effectively as
they can be avoided by example. And people problems can't entirely be
avoided, it is a cost of doing business with people especially when
almost all of the interaction is impersonal. Sometimes I think the
best course of action is to say that was unpleasant, shrug it off, and
move on.

John