On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:50 AM Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads@pgug.de> wrote:
>
> On 26/02/2020 00:39, 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.
>
> Indeed posts can already be removed, and so can entire blogs. There
> is an anti-spam policy in place.
Only *after* they have been delivered to most readers -- there is
nobody around to react to a posting within 5 minutes after it has been
made. Which is what's needed to prevent it from getting out to the big
RSS aggregators as well as places like Twitter.
If we want to fix that, we have to do pre-moderation, like we do for
-announce. That is a whole different level of commitment, and you will
now be looking at hours or days of delays of all other blog posts as
well. But sure, it's a decision of priorities between those.
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Magnus Hagander
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