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A while ago I posted a story on my blog which then appeared on Fedora Planet. In it I expressed my doubts on the usefulness of the planet, due to its low signal-to-noise ratio, due to the babel-like mix of languages. As a response to this posting I got a lot of really dumb comments, both directly on the blog story and by email. I was called "intolerant", a "Nazi", "stupid", that I should "revise my geography", that I should go "fuck myself", that I apparently thought that the "world was USA property" ^[1]. Back then I thought that there were just a few morons in the peripherals of the community. But now, since this incident happened I started to wonder if we might actually have a bigger problem in the community.

I guess this is a good opportunity to pimp David Arlie's alternative Fedora aggregator which I find a very useful replacement for Fedora Planet.

Footnotes

[1] I am wondering though why people think that I am a monoglot american? I am not. Neither monoglot, nor american. And if suggesting that I was was intended as an insult, then I can only say that it insulted me far less than the insulter might have thought...

posted at: 23:08 | path: / | permanent link to this entry | 6 comments

Posted by Sri Ramkrishna at Tue Jul 15 02:41:06 2008
Being called "nazi' is certainly insulting knowing how you personally feel about Nazis from our conversations two years ago. I can't imagine how irritating that must be.

sri

Posted by Ian at Tue Jul 15 02:49:05 2008
The "USA property" comment on a .de blog made my afternoon. Funny as hell. More please!

Posted by Zeeshan Ali at Tue Jul 15 10:44:06 2008
"Nazi" - yes you are nazi if you don't want to come to tampere and be a strong german leader who leads people to Canaries. :P

"fuck yourself" - It would be only interesting to try to attempt that. :)

Jokes beside, I believe you are one of the nicest and most intelligent guys I have ever known so you just ignore these annoying people assholes who are eager to comment on your blog entries without actually reading them (carefully).

Posted by andre klapper at Tue Jul 15 11:19:53 2008
Hey, I'm called a nazi at least once a month! Would be more if we'd meet more often! ;-))

Posted by Dimitris Glezos at Tue Jul 15 12:52:00 2008
/me is wondering if there's any Planet software that stores on a cookie personal preferences like languages to follow, categories, even feeds, etc.

Posted by Sandy at Tue Jul 15 14:58:32 2008
@Dimitris: Yeah, I believe Planet SUSE has a feature like that. Planet GNOME does it with CSS hacks.

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