Michael Meeks has a blog. He’s affiliated with SUSE in one way or another. So his RSS feed is picked up by Planet SUSE. All well and good, but what if his content isn’t really on-topic for the aggregation, which is mostly software-oriented? Or, for example, me. I have a blog and it’s picked up by an internal Novell employees aggregation, but my posts have NOTHING to do with work. The whole point, for me, of getting a non-work blog was posting non-work-related stuff on it.
I don’t think Michael signed up for Planet SUSE– I think they just added him, as he invites anyone to do by posting an RSS feed. I certainly didn’t request to be on Planet Novell (not that I mind, but I didn’t agree to any terms or anything). Unless someone signs up promises a particular sort of content, there’s no good reason to demand that they produce it. If my RSS feed is off-topic for your aggregator, then don’t carry my RSS feed, or ask politely for me to split out the topics into two feeds, one for tech and one for everything else, like John Fleck has done, after getting too many complaints about his content from Planet GNOME.
Honestly though, nbody promised you a perfect walled garden of on-topic content. Don’t like it? Don’t read it. Also, your discussion of topicality should be taken elsewhere, since it’s not on-topic for this site.
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