2010/6/18 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:53 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: >> If this discussion were happening on an Ubuntu list because they were >> butthurt about a Fedora contributor joining their planet and put up a >> huge Fedora logo, I'd be having a damned fine laugh at their expense. >> > It would be perfectly rational for them to be bothered by it if that was > the case. > > Why do we have separate planets? Hmmm. Why don't we just have one planet > with all contributors from all distros? > >> Instead, *we* come across as being butthurt about Ooboontoo. Plain >> and simple. Makes me sad. > >> But if we can't envision a situation in which a post with a gigantic >> ooboontoo logo might just belong on the Fedora planet from time to >> time, then I think we're being reactionary and insecure. And this >> isn't just Mo, either. I think a deep insecurity about ooboontoo has >> taken > > Wow, this is being blown way out of proportion to be an ubuntu-specific > problem, or to be some deep-rooted psychosis or insecurity. It's not. I > could really care less about posts having something to do with ubuntu > being posted to our planet. What seems obnoxious to me is an ubuntu logo > > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG THISBIG > > Front and center on the planet, with two lines of content in a > non-lingua franca language I certainly don't understand, linking to a > site that appears to be selling something and is definitely asking for a > lot more personal information than any free / open project would ever > need to know. > > This, at the same time ubuntu themselves [1] are being attacked on > identi.ca, I made the assumption (perhaps unfair, perhaps rash) that > this could be a similar attack on Fedora. Certainly an account *just* > added to planet behaving in this way seems way more suspicious than say > a planet contributor who's at least been around for a few weeks and has > actually made at least one post about *fedora*, who happens to make a > random post (hopefully with enough lines of content to dwarf the hugeass > logo) about ubuntu or any other distro. > > After seeing that social media attack on ubuntu I am thinking, wow, > *anybody* could sign up for a FAS account, sign up to get a blog > syndicated to planet, and just troll away. And we don't even have a > single guideline to prevent them from doing so. > > So I apologize if I was rash in asking if it was a problem, and I > apologize for jumping to a lot of conclusions. But please let's drop the > Ubuntu psychosis talk because it really isn't relevant. > > ~m > > [1] http://identi.ca/markshuttlecock , http://identi.ca/jonabacon , > http://identi.ca/sjobs > > > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board > Having just read this entire thread I think the confusion could have been avoided had you been as clear in your 1st post as you were in this one. SMP _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
