Caleb Gilbert wrote:

...and is not an appropriate thing to do for people with Drupal.org <http://Drupal.org> frontpage rights.

If there is something that an individual wants to talk out with the active Drupal community it should be done on the mailing listing, in the forums, in irc, Planet Drupal, via email or other appropriate places which are NOT supposed to be reserved for ushering in newcomers. Of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the front page, only a few hundred of them have enough inside knowledge of the Drupal community to have an educated opinion, so why not spare the vast majority of Drupal.org <http://Drupal.org> visitors from posts, which in their eyes, likely serves nothing but to undermine the legitimacy of Drupal, its community, and open source.

Besides the practicalities of the situation it's also very disrespectful and a betrayal of trust to the people/project who granted the frontpage rights in the first place to do such a thing as posting personal agenda-type items to the frontpage.

Here's hoping that individuals and the community-at-large tighten the reins around themselves/each other in order to avoid these personal-soapbox situations in the future (unless it's to evangelize Drupal, the community, or open source), because it seems to be having a profoundly negative effect on morale...

I totally agree with you.