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I agree. Link-only postings should be hidden. - Ken

On 9 Aug 2002 at 13:11, Brian van Dam wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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