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What's with all these political posts? (Score:2)
Hi nicholas!
I've been subscribed the use.perl.org feed for a while now to follow up on all the interesting perl news. But one thing I don't like are political posts, especially those that you've posted recently, several in a row.
Now I respect you as a programmer and a large contributor to the Perl core and other Perl projects, but I still don't want to read such disturbing blog posts.
I suggest that you (and everybody else) refrain from posting political posts here. If you still wish to write them, th
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It's useful to know how easy it is to get you to stop following a blog. Thanks for sharing that information.
Just for clarification, would you start filtering even more quickly if someone started posting about Middle Eastern politics?
Re:What's with all these political posts? (Score:2)
It's good to know you think it's desirable that I won't follow your blog. Thanks for sharing that information. ;-)
Re Middle Eastern politics: if someone starts blogging about Middle Eastern politics in their blog, which I have enjoyed so far, and I don't find these posts of merit, I will also warn them that I may consider to unsubscribe, and give them a chance to reconsider that. But mid-eastern politics is not going to get special treatment than that of any other politics in this regard.
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