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I think it's a little more difficult...
by Bill Soudan on Wednesday 02/Jan/2002, @08:42

Thanks for the response, anonymous editor ;)

I still feel the article was a bit thin, and in the past, it seems this type of news would have been a quickie rather than a whole story. I'll lean to your judgement here since after all, you're the editor and I'm not.

In any case, quickie or not, I think it should have been posted without the soap opera twist (e.g. headline reads 'ImageMagik effect code ported to KDE by Mosfet' & kill the lead-in, rather than the current headline & lead-in which *clearly* emphasizes Mosfet's on-off relationship with KDE rather than his actual contribution). Throw the mention about his 'rocky history' at the end if you absolutely must (though I personally would leave it out).

Whether or not there are individuals who feel slighted, I don't know, I'm only bringing it up as a possibility. I feel in this case you may be wielding your editorial power to the detriment of the community, because I'm fairly certain there are more than a few important KDE contributors who aren't happy with Mosfet because of his games. You're doing them a disservice by encouraging him.

This is a fine line that I think you as editors have been walking for a while, it's really too bad Mosfet has put volunteer editors in this position. Then again, it's really too bad what Mosfet has done in the past to many of the other KDE volunteers and the reputation of KDE as a whole. Anyway. The dot has been walking down one side of the line for quite some time now, posting his news because it's news. Maybe it's time to walk down the other: don't post the news because quite frankly he doesn't need any more encouragement, or at least post his news more objectively.

Mosfet's contributions may be worthy news - his attention-grabbing games are not. And then in my very biased opinion, his games make his contributions much less worthy of publicity. I personally would drop his articles on the floor until he demonstrated that he can contribute without all the childish noise, out of respect for the countless other KDE volunteers.

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