www: b1cadda2: removing unvisited blog page in news sec...

[Casey Ho]

2008/12/26 Kevin Stange <kevin at simguy.net>:
> caseyho at pidgin.im wrote:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Revision: b1cadda28ca638799ff58603b9783ab1a17f2827
>> Ancestor: 6d5133b6a4bbe217eec8185fad91089e331b8487
>> Author: caseyho at pidgin.im
>> Date: 2008-12-27T00:37:52
>> Branch: im.pidgin.www
>> URL: http://d.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b1cadda28ca638799ff58603b9783ab1a17f2827
>>
>> Deleted entries:
>>         htdocs/news/blogs htdocs/news/blogs/index.php
>> Modified files:
>>         inc/section.inc inc/section.news.inc
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>>
>> removing unvisited blog page in news section
>>
>
> I am disapproving this revision for three reasons.
>
> 1) The pages linked to are the blogs of developers, which, while
> aggregated on planet.pidgin.im are not always visible but may still be
> of interest to visitors.  I don't care if no one links to the page
> directly or rarely visits it.
>
> 2) The planet-im.com blog is almost entirely irrelevant to Pidgin users,
> with the sole exception of blog posts being posted by people whose blogs
> are already aggregated into our own planet installation.
>
> 3) The change to section.inc was silly code and I don't see any reason
> to explicitly tell search engines not to follow off-site links.  Unless
> we want to keep those we feel compelled to link to from benefits of a
> better PageRank, it seems pointless.
>
> The generated HTML is also invalid because the attribute value is
> unquoted, but that could be easily fixed if there were otherwise
> justification.
>
> Kevin

I'm good with the revert- the updates you made afterwards improved the
quality of the page.  I wasn't quite sure what to do myself and just
followed the lead of other sites like Planet GNOME- but in hindsight,
their site wasn't a good role model for relevancy.

I'm no longer near my computer- could you do one more thing and filter
the blogs listed on the page?  For example, Luke's entire blog is
listed and has some irrelevant stuff.  It seems like only posts with
the tag "pidgin" should be present.

-Casey