[Imc-aotearoa-ed] post hidden

[Brian van Dam]

Hi All,
                I have appended a note explaining why, and hidden this post:

http://www.indymedia.org.nz/display.php3?article_id=599&group=webcast

as it has nothing but a link to a (very interesting looking) webpage. 
Nothing offensive - just the misleading title (I'm assuming people other 
than roving find this degrades the usefulness of the site) and no text!

Perhaps we should include in the ed policy a point that postings which 
only have a link will be automatically hidden. The idea being (with an 
explanatory note given in the ed policy) that if someone wishes to link 
to another webpage with something they found interesting, they should at 
least give one or two lines in their post to AIM which includes the link 
to explain why they thought it good to click on.

It seems to me that this would have a few benefits:
*    Many of our spams are link only postings, so this policy would 
speed up removal
*    For the good (useful) links that are posted, it would encourage 
better brief explanations of why they are useful to other readers.

What do folks think?

Cheers,
                Brian.