The right fix is for Planet Mozilla to let each individual choose exactly which feeds to ignore. (You want a blacklist so that you get to see newly added blogs.) I’ve suggested it to the Planet maintainers, but apparently it’s more work than they are willing to put in.

I still don’t see how this allows people to view the feeds, except perhaps if they have a Google account themselves?

I would label it spam (high frequency/no value) and harassment (several of the subjects did, as even mentioned by the poster, not want to be photographed/exposed).

But isn’t this just a backwards way of getting rid of the noise.

Is there a way to see the list of feeds that it syndicates?

I would like that too! I only started using Google Reader today and I don’t know if it has that feature for public blogrolls.

Even a tech only feed would have parts considered “noise”; for example: pure web devs may not want to read about Thunderbird or the Rust language. A small set of reasonable subcategories would solve this (one category for each “product”, then add JS, HTML/CSS, IT, standardization, and research). The only problem is, such a feed would require deliberate curation. A moderator would have to pick the best posts from the Planet firehose and manually share them to this new feed. That’s not a trivial amount of work, and I’d like to help but I have no idea what the best way to do it would be.

I still think Planet has a place: it gives a good overall picture of the people in the Mozilla community. Many people don’t need or want it, but I like having it.

Basically, choice is best, etc