[wp-forums] [closed] Creating a Google Gadget for a WP feed

[Christopher J. Hradil]

OK, agreed, however, the fact is that that post is directly related to WP,
in that the "out of the box" WP feed doesn't work correctly with
google-gadgets. How is that veering from the core interest ? My core
interest is in seeing that as many folks as possible adopt the WP platform
and view it as "best of breed", and part of that takes into consideration,
the strength and level of activity of the development and support
communities, which I view as second to none. However, with almost 20 years
experience in this business, and almost 15 years heavily involved in open
source projects, I have seen time and again, that when a small number of
individuals try to become the "communities" voice or opinion, problems soon
follow. Now, understand, that I'm not saying that you or moshu are doing
that or trying to, but I know that "outsiders" perceive the "moderator" to
be in the group of "insiders", and so one persons actions/decisions can and
often are mistaken for the community consensus. I know that both you and
moshu spend an enormous amount of your own time donating your experience to
the community, and you both should be thanked for that, and are a big part
of why things work so well. I do as much as I can with what time I have
available, but I don't feel like shutting folks down is a good way to
promote the community. Also, clearly this particular situation is somewhat
of a gray area in that while it's technically a WP issue, the OP didn't
address it from that perspective. I'm just saying, let's take it a bit easy
on folks, especially those who are reasonably new to the community, but that
doesn't mean that I/we or anyone should be "supporting" the world's
technical issues via these forums, they're clearly for WP only, and there
are plenty of clear cases where folks ask completely unrelated questions
which often are and should be closed. 

best...chris  


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Subject: Re: [wp-forums] [closed] Creating a Google Gadget for a WP feed

Christopher J. Hradil wrote:
> . I think we're getting a little carried away here, he did post it in 
> the misc. category, and I for one have looked at creating feeds both 
> for personal use and for clients with the google gadgets, they don't 
> seem to work correctly with wordpress, so given that the OP stated 
> "This is not an actual problem with WP or even related to WP code as 
> such." I think he was looking to see if any other wp users had similar 
> or any experience using WP with google gadgets.
> 
> Maybe we could at least read the whole post before deciding to close it.
> It's a big turn off for folks simply trying to find a solution to 
> their problem to have more experienced or "powerful" members of the 
> community appear to jump down their throats for no real good reason.

I think Moshu made the right decision.

The WP forums are seen as quick and very knowledgeable - and rightly so.
We already answer a diverse bunch of questions but we have tried for a long
time now to keep issues as close to WP as possible. While this particular
post might be "okay, it's only one" to answer, so will the next one. And the
one following that. The forums must not become diluted by questions that
veer off what is our core interest. It may well be in Misc but that was
intended for WP issues still, not random "I'll post there because they are
good" questions. We know from experience that people will post to our forum
simply because we are better than others and we answer faster. We owe it to
all users of WP that we keep it that way and if someone wants to fish hoping
for an answer then I think it is right that it is closed.

P.
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