Re: Non-personal blogs on Planet

On 2/24/20 9:01 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 24/02/2020 14:22, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> right now, the posting policy[1] for Planet is that every blog must be
>> associated with a person:
>>
>> "Blogs should be submitted by a community account in the name of the
>> blog author"
>>
>>
>> It so happens that I have a new project coming up (approval still pending,
>> but submitted under my name) where the content is not about me, or from
>> me, but a series of interviews. That's something where my name doesn't even
>> need to be tackled on.
>
> I would say that this should still be under your name.

+1 to Vik's point.

>
>> This raises the question if blogs can be non-personal, but project
>> related, or company related. Any of the related PostgreSQL projects
>> could post updates, without using personal accounts for this.
>
> The case I'm interested in, is allowing conferences to post as
> themselves and not as any particular organizer.

One of the main reasons we have the policy in place is to ensure there
is a person attached to the content. It does help to reduce the risk of
Planet becoming an advertising/spam feed and IMV, it helps to drive
higher quality content knowing that someone has to put their name on
what is being syndicated.

That's a long way of saying that I'm -1 for changing the policy :)

Thanks,

Jonathan