http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/490

I've not seen something so obviously an ad ("available now from our store" and our store is a link) on the planet before -- is this acceptable?

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avpaderno’s picture

I am not sure it would.
Dave Reid is taking care of writing some guidelines for what is acceptable in Planet Drupal feed. I think that a reference to this could help.

dave reid’s picture

Title: free advertising via the planet ok? » Warn venturacottage.com for advertising posts
Assigned: Unassigned » dave reid
Category: support » task
Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for reporting this. I'll contact the site owners and let them know that advertisements like that are not appropriate for the planet.

bonobo’s picture

Status: Fixed » Needs work

FYI: I was contacted as the site owner on this; this is not accurate.

I'm not the site owner. As seen in #507938: Add to Agregator feed I added the feed to the planet. The user has done some work in education, and in the past has been active in the education group.

His user ID is http://drupal.org/user/67038 --

FWIW, if someone is adding advertising to the planet, I'd recommend removing the feed, contacting the publisher, and only adding the feed after they have responded in a positive way.

Dave's email, despite going to the wrong person, was a good outreach point. I recommend connecting with the actual site owner, however, as that will be a more effective way of addressing this :)

dave reid’s picture

@bonobo: My apologies. I thought you were the site owner since you had created the request, but this is why I shouldn't try to do this late at night. :/ I'll contact the correct site owner. Thanks for being understanding in my mistake. :)

dave reid’s picture

Status: Needs work » Fixed

Warned the correct user.

bonobo’s picture

Hello, Dave -- no worries at all. Glad that the author of the feed got notified, and thank you for the time you put in (are putting in) to maintaining d.o --

bonobo’s picture

And there is actually another issue about this here: #502734: Please add feed to Drupal Planet

WorldFallz’s picture

Status: Fixed » Active

@Dave--

what was the text of the email? The latest planet post also ends in an ad for the theme store:

http://venturacottage.com/tutorials/theming/themeing-tutorial-using-colo...

Is it no ads at all or just not in teaser?

WorldFallz’s picture

Also, imo these 'posts' are nothing more than very thinly veiled attempts at free advertising-- the posts are extremely short, contain no meat, and probably take all of 3 minutes to type up (if that).

avpaderno’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Does the feed still contain posts that seem advertising?

greggles’s picture

Title: Warn venturacottage.com for advertising posts » Remove venturacottage.com feed - site hosts malware per google
Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org content
Component: Drupal Planet » Planet Drupal
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Needs work

According to chromium the site now has malware. This was confirmed by codi and heyrocker though the online tool says there is not a problem.

If you visit http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/490 in chrome you probably also get the warning so I have removed the feed to avoid google thinking drupal.org is participating in distributing malware.

I'm very open to having the feed re-added as soon as the malware situation is cleared up. I do agree with the previous comments that some of the posts are a bit heavy on advertising.

Hi artatac,

I removed your feed from drupal.org because Google's safe browser tool believes it is distributing malware.

Can you comment on the issue at https://drupal.org/node/625596 letting us know what's going on with the feed?

Thanks,
Greg

dddave’s picture

Assigned: dave reid » Unassigned
Status: Needs work » Fixed

Closing this issue. If somebody from venturacottage wants the feed back on the Planet feel free to reopen this issue.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.