Nobody is claiming right to censor what people say about their software.<br><br>This is the Internet. There are blogs. Google and other search engines find blogs quickly, and people who agree with the viewpoints expressed link to them thus making the blog postings more visible. There are countless other social networks and outlets for people to flame and slander (or praise and promote, in a much less common case) software.<br>
<br>It would be more useful to provide a PyPI mechanism to publish a link to file bugs on the project's own website and leave project ratings the work of other sites such as Ohloh.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info">steve@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
</div>No, what's absurd is thinking that the act of publishing software<br>
somehow gives you the right to demand control over what others say<br>
about your software.<br><br></blockquote></div>