diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d047dc6..b118636 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,12 +1,30 @@ theread.me ========== -An open-source blog, about programming, life and travel, might as well expand to other stuff, too. +A "free as in freedom" blog you can write on without any fuss. It's simply that. -Want to write on the blog? open a pull-request. +Principles +---------- -Authors can be anonymous, or you can write your name and a link as author. +1. There are no hard-limits on the topics, most topics are welcome, unless there is some very explicit content (extremism, porn), but that's to be decided about democratically. +2. Original content only, no promotional content or ads. You must be the one who actually wrote the piece. +3. You may or may not write anonymously, you are not required to mention your name as the author if you don't want to. +4. In order to keep the blog tidy, we try to keep a standard format. This [format](#formatting) is explained below. +5. This is a collaborative and community-driven project, so suggestions and criticisms are welcome. + * Think we can improve the blog in some way? Let's discuss it in [issues](issues) section! + * Want to help us improve the blog? Take a look at open issues with [help-wanted](issues/filter:help-wanted) tag -There is no clear rule of what gets accepted and what gets rejected, if you get rejected, there will most probably -be an explanation of why, if it's not something very off-topic, and if value is found in the content, you will most likely -be accepted. We don't want to dictate anything, we just want to keep things tidy. +Formatting +------ + +* Use italics to highlight titles: book titles, post titles, paper titles, etc. +* Use bold to highlight attention-deserving parts, your post should not have many bold words in a short pieces as it distracts the user by de-focusing their attention. +* Use blockquotes for directly quoted text if it's long enough +* Use quotes to highlight: directly quoted parts, puns (if you want to), to emphasize that a word itself is meant, not it's meaning (example: I painted "circle" on the board) +* Link when links can help gather additional information. Readers should not feel the need to manually search a piece of text if we can link to the most-relevant link for a subject. As a general rule of thumb: Link to Wikipedia when mentioning a special name (person, book, project, etc.) if the subject does not have a it's own homepage on the internet. +* Use images only when they enhance the content, not indiscriminately, just so your post looks like _media_. +* Use the [figure] element to add a caption to images, or if a caption is not necessary, use a meaningful `alt` attribute for sake of accessibility. + +Write +----------- +Once you have read [Principles](#Principles) and [Formatting](#Formatting), write and send a pull-request.