I've often wondered at the lack of responses on TPF blog since I thought it should get a lot of responses. I recently posted there and noticed moderation is in effect. This, along with Garrett Goebel's post on lack of transparency at TPF, makes me wonder how many posts do not get approved/displayed.

Some project blogs I've seen are either unmoderated or have a very fast and very liberal filter. The RoR blog comes to mind with all the comments they had on the recent Rails security patches. Many of the comments were clearly things they chose not to officially discuss but they posted the comments for the community.

I'm not sure how many people are commenting to TPF blog and how many comments don't get shown. What are people's experiences? Does this happen a lot? If so, does it make sense for TPF blog to be less moderated? An alternative is to run an "Unofficial TPF" blog which links to TPF blog articles but allows unmoderated comments. Would something like this be more effective in generating discussion about TPF and Perl?

In reply to Re: TPF RFC by jwang
in thread TPF RFC by Ovid

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