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Some ColdFusionBloggers.org Guidelines

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Posted in Misc | Posted on 07-30-2010 | 2,125 views

From time to time I'll get alerted about blog entries aggregated on CFBloggers that is either not-ColdFusion related or perhaps inappropriate. I don't have a firm set of guidelines on how I handle situations like that. I thought I'd write down a few notes/ideas about how I think things should be handled. While at the end of the day the site is mine to run as I see fit, I want a resource that is useful and valuable for the community.

  1. Blogs aggregated on the site should be - primarily - ColdFusion related.
  2. It is not the expectation that every entry on a blog will concern ColdFusion.
  3. If ColdFusion is more of a minor topic for your blog, then a category-specific RSS feed should be used instead of the site's main RSS.
  4. Blogs change. When I first started this blog I'd be willing to bet 99% of my entries were ColdFusion related. Now I blog quite a bit about AJAX, Flex, and AIR. I think non-CF technical type entries are great for CFBloggers. One - they typically involve CF anyway (for example, almost all of my jQuery posts will use CF at some point), and second, it helps bring new topics and ideas to our community.

When I get pinged about content that is not CF related, I tend to tell folks some variation of item 4 above. Obviously I do double check the site to ensure it hasn't completely changed (I've seen a few blogs go away and turn into spam sites), but for the most part, if I still see relevant ColdFusion content on a site I'm not going to remove it from CFBloggers.

I will - from time to time though - remove a blog when I think it makes sense. This is not censorship. Your blog not being aggregated by CFBloggers does not mean folks will be unable to read it. I'm also not infallible. If you think I made a mistake, speak up and let me know.

Signed, the apparent speech police for ColdFusion.

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John Ramon said on 07-30-2010 at 10:39 AM #
So if I post about what I had for dinner and add "ColdFusion Rocks" at the end of the post that doesn't count I'm guessing.

haha... I'm just being a smart @$$
Jose Galdamez said on 07-30-2010 at 11:48 AM #
"I'm also not infallible."

Correction. You're a Jedi Master. By definition you make no mistakes. At least when you do, you can always "force mind trick" people into believing nothing happened.
Daniel Garcia said on 07-30-2010 at 3:44 PM #
Is there a way in ColdFusionBloggers.org for the individual readers to filter out certain blogs? I actually use the RSS feed with Google reader, so I would be fine with just having the filter there.

Great job on the site and thanks for everything you do.
Raymond Camden said on 07-30-2010 at 4:26 PM #
@Daniel: No, but I've considered adding it many times. So for example, you could build a custom collection (based on the items I aggregate though), name it (imagine a model-glue collection), and share it (modelglue.coldfusionbloggers.org).
TomasF said on 07-31-2010 at 1:44 PM #
Daniel Garcia: Consider running it through a Yahoo! Pipes process.
Lola LB said on 07-31-2010 at 2:00 PM #
Custom collections would be useful. Couple times I've searched through for a post that I remember seeing (but not the name of that blog from where it originated) at least 6 months ago and ended up getting lost.
Larry C. Lyons said on 08-01-2010 at 11:12 AM #
I don't mind a bit of off topic items on blogs that are aggregated by CFBloggers.org. But there are a few where I am still trying to figure out why they were included. When a blog is nothing but politically extremist rants, then why is it included in the aggregator. Unfortunately those who are most guilty of such tend also to be the loudest whingers when such rules are applied to them.

That said I'd rather be reading CF related blog posts than political rants. If I want those I can always check out CF-Community.

regards,
larry

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