Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Carsten Lohrke]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 23:04, Curtis Napier wrote:
> > No, that's censored to only display what certain people want it to say
> > rather than the truth of what's going on.
>
> Censored? Please expand on this, how is it censored? I thought we were
> allowed to put anything Gentoo related we want to in our Gentoo blog?

It's censored in the sense, that you limit the audience. Blog's are not suited 
for general information/discussion, because no one wants to monitor dozens of 
them and follow multiple threads on different web pages on one and the same 
topic. Weblogs are useful for people who feel it's necessary to have their 
own prominent place to raise their voice - a self-projection thingie, that's 
all. And therefore 99,5% of all the blogs are superfluous. Also a blog owner 
controls the comments and can delete them as he likes (less important, since 
it lets him not look good, but he can).

To make it short: When you really have something important to say, post it to 
the appropriate mailing list - and post the whole text, not a ridiculous link 
to your blog, most people are not interested in and won't read! The same goes 
for our userbase: They're right to expect a single source of general 
information and one for security information, but not being forced to follow 
lots of blogs.


Carsten