Re: Planet posting policy

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 10:56:43AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> On 02/01/2012 10:22 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> >The reasonable tihng would be to announce the poll on *planet*. That
> >would make it reach exactly the people we want, which is, those who
> >read planet.
>
> I would agree this would be a reasonable sample but I would not
> agree that it is as reasonable as it could be (how to solve it, I
> don't know).
> >
> >
> >>The question to me really boils down to, do we want to relax the rules in an
> >>order to increase readership and the value (intellectual) of the content.
> >
> >No, it also boils down to if relaxing the rule *does* increase
> >readership (probably, but *far* from certain) and the value (much more
> >in debate, I'd say) of planet.
> >
>
> I am not sure how much debate there really is except from a
> puritanical sense that doesn't really add to the value of the
> content. It is directly appropriate to read about vPostgres and all
> its goodness on planet (same as Advanced server, IMO).

If I was sure that commercial content would be posted with the same
regularity and motivation as our current content, I would be fine, but
knowing companies, I doubt that is true.

I can imagine company X saying, "Oh, we have a new product coming out
--- we need a blog campaign around that." I am afraid that isn't going
to be pretty.

Now, as a counter example, I just looked at the EnterpriseDB blog and
saw what they blogged about the cloud product they just released:

http://blogs.enterprisedb.com/

There are only two blog entries, and the rest are PG community ones from
me, so I guess if they aren't totally spamming their own
company-controlled blog, they might not do too much harm on Planet
Postgres.

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