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Thoughts on Filtering Planet Lotus

October 1st, 2008

So there has been lots of talk of people wanting some way to filter topics on PlanetLotus.org over the past couple months. With all the talk of the election in the U.S. this fall, as well as personal topics that might not be on target and posts that seem to manipulate the readership. As UKLUG, there was a discussion about this. I can no remember who came up with the idea, but I heard the best solution to this problem. Yancy should not filter anything. Nor should he build filtering tools. But sometimes when I blog, I want to make the decision to keep that post off of PL. I would like to see a tag/category that I can put on any entry, i.e. "NoPL", that Yancy will filter out when he reads the rss feed. This way, I can blog about something, and keep it off PlanetLotus.org. If you follow me via RSS, you can read it all. Also, this way, no one can claim censorship - by the site or other people. The poster makes the choice.

Thoughts?