Matt made a sincere apology for that mistake already and put up a Trigger Warning. Most people have accepted the apology and moved on.

It would be a great help to all if you did the same.

This time, with the link to a rape video that you provided, on a site that has people of all ages reading it, I really felt that crossed a line of decency and I should voice my thoughts on the matter.

Your complaint is that a horrible action is being marketed via your inbox. I’m pointing out that things just as horrible are being marketed in other more potent and direct ways to many more people. They just do not arrive in your inbox as a piece of spam that likely gets filtered out for more people before they receive it in their inbox and a smaller amount actually opens those spam messages that makes it that far. /You/ relayed to the spam to the Ubuntu community.

Far from trying to undermine you I want you to realize the extent of how bad things are and where your complaint needs to continue to reach its next logical steps. If you want to raise awareness of the marketing of human horrors, a piece of spam that few people receive and even less read and pass on to others is just the tip of the iceberg.

Sensitive subject indeed and I agree with Mary that it probably shouldn’t have hit Planet, but I certainly don’t agree with Jason – this is not a “pathetic” post and it doesn’t make the poster “abhorrent”. Perhaps the nature of the post just hit a nerve with a few people expecting more chat about Ubuntu itself.

Please, stop looking for an angle to undermine me, and just take what I’m saying at face value. I was calling attention to something which reflects something horrific about contemporary humanity.

That’s exactly the point; the only vague relation that this post has to the Ubuntu community is that it has to do with the Internet.

If I wanted to know his every thought and feeling, I’d subscribe to this blog directly. Instead, I subscribed to Planet Ubuntu, and Planet Fedora, and Planet Mozilla, etc, etc; all of which I have bookmarked under the title “Dev Blogs”. This indicates that my intention was to have direct access to technical discussions related to these topics.

The people who manage the planets seem to be woefully lax with the postings allowed there; for every good technical post I see, I get ten other posts talking about what someone had for lunch, or how far someone biked that day, or a post full of what someone considers to be photography.

So the state of relevant posts on the Planets is bad enough as it is without people trying to say that this sort of rambling actually makes sense.

By the way, sensitive topic or not, ending your post in “for shame” does not automatically place you on some sort of moral high ground. Just thought you should know.