Re: Advertising on the community blog

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 10:47 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> I don't actually have a problem with *that particular post* except that
> Theo should have used lead/link so that only the first paragraph
> appeared on Planet.
>

Agreed, but that is something planet could enforce on its own as well.

> However, I'm very concerned that setting a precedent of allowing want
> ads on Planet could cause a deluge of far less desirable posts.  So I
> think we should make it a policy not to allow it in the future.

I don't see that as a problem because you can't just "be a part of
planet". It isn't a crawling aggregator.

Joshua D. Drake


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> --Josh Berkus
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