Re: Non-personal blogs on Planet

On 2/25/20 6:50 PM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 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.

Instead of fighting spam with "tie content to persons", I rather see a
content policy. Not as strict as postings to -announce, but something
which can limit what can be posted, and how often.

I'm more in favor of this. My biggest concern is the moderation burden
by just allowing anyone to post on behalf of a conference. The turnover
point that Christophe made actually heightens that concern (and I do
understand it from the other side as well, it is certainly convenient to
have people write content without having to register a new blog every year).

(...though OTOH, I believe the pgeu software does allow for this)

Right now, if someone plays by the established rules, nothing prevents
this person from posting about every single minor release of a tool.
Heck, it's not even against policy to post every commit message as
a blog post. Clearly the existing policy/strategy is only good as long
as no one starts using loop holes.

(Great, now everyone knows and moderating is going to be that much
harder :P)

Why? Nothing to moderate, it's all valid content ;-)

I don't see why this policy can't be expanded to allow certain content
posted under, let's say, community accounts. This can be conferences
and PostgreSQL related tools. That should already be the majority.

I'd be in favor for this, with the right policy. Most, if not all, of
the content policies are in place, so I would go with one related to the
frequency of blog posts. The goal would be to ensure that, much like
-announce, we keep the content coming through Planet balanced. We don't
want it to be dominated by articles coming from event blogs, but
likewise ensure community events have good visibility.

Traditionally posting frequency on Planet is higher than on -announce.

The problem I see is two-fold: conferences, and projects/tools. Don't think
that anything else needs a non-personal account, certainly not companies.


I don't have a good idea how to policy tools. How about:


Non-personal accounts for PostgreSQL related tools can post about major
version changes, bugfix releases, and content directly related to the project
itself. All other content (as example: tuning, configuration, best practices, ...)
need to be posted from a personal account.


That certainly needs a better wording ...


For conferences:

Non-personal postings for conferences are limited to Community recognized
conferences. The items on the following list can each warrant a separate
posting on Planet:

• Conference announcement
• Call for Papers open
  
• Call for Sponsors open
• Call for Papers closed
• Schedule published
  
• Registration open
• Conference starts
• Conference ends
• Summary
• Major conference changes (like date or location change)
  

Did I miss any major items in the list?


Regards,

-- 			Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project