Re: Non-personal blogs on Planet

On 26/02/2020 00:41, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 2/25/20 6:39 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> On 26/02/2020 00:27, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> On 2/24/20 9:01 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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 :)
>>
>> Hmm. Do we not have a way of removing problematic blogs from planet?
>> We should fix that, and then we can revisit this policy.
>
> Problematic blogs certainly receive some combination of
> advice/warning/suspension/removal.

Oh good! Then we can change the policy so that community-recognized
conferences can post as themselves.
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Vik Fearing