Cleanup: clarification
If I may believe my mailbox and blog comment system, here seems to be some confusion over my cleanup post of a few days ago, so allow me to clarify.
- It is not up to me (or, for that matter, up to anyone but the author) to decide what anyone should write on their blog. However, it is important that the content of Planet Grep remains interesting, and the only way for me to do that is to remove feeds that provide content which, for the most part, is not that interesting for people who read Planet Grep. This is not a personal attack on anyone.
- While I have removed blog feeds that for the most part consisted of nontechnical content, this in no way is meant to imply that people should only send technical content to Planet Grep; on the contrary. This is just a belated follow-up on the results of the survey, where it was clearly indicated that while an occasional nontechnical post is welcomed by most people, this should definitely not be the main topic.
Hope that explains.
Non-technical content there is none. 0
definitely not enough 0
I'd like some more 1 mmkay 15
pretty good, but a slight bit more wouldn't hurt 6
love it 19
too much! 11
19: love it = positive (about non tech content) 6: pretty good, but more wouldn't hurt: = positive mmkay: 15 = neutral too much!: 11 negative
so I see 25 positive, 11 negative
It is possible that I overestimate the appreciation of the love it and they find it just enough so that is neutral too.
But still from this figures I don't see a very good reason to remove non-technical blogs (I like for example the blog of lowagie very much, so I immediately subscribed to that right after it was removed)
Note: I didn't knew their was such a poll ongoing so I didn't vote
You've only looked at question #4; you should also have a look at question #5. As for the announcement of the survey, that happened at planet grep. Sorry you missed it, but that wasn't my fault...