[Imc-aotearoa-ed] Re: deliberate misinformation/ war reposts - spam patterns

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou,

We could add both 'reworked corporate reposts' and 'war
equipment spam' to the 'for immediate action' part of the
editorial policy. But I think it would be simpler to
identify these as 'trademark spam patterns', in accordance
with Section C of the Ed Policy. By the way the link to the
spammers list in the ed policy doc linked from the site
doesn't work.

Thoughts?

While going through the ed policy I noticed a couple of
things. Section C says "Each instance of recognized spam
will be considered individually, and the reason why the
editorial collective perceives the post(s) as spam will be
stated on the editorial list." which we havn't been doing.

Also, "The editor appends a signed comment to the hidden
article explaining why it was hidden." Have we been doing
this? I have in the case of hiding comments but have often
forgotten when hiding articles.

In both cases this creates extra work for ed volunteers. If
it wasn't for the fact that DadaIMC will change this anyway
(am I right?) I would suggest revising the policy.

We don't really need to give our reasons to BOTH the ed list
AND the hidden article. In the case of spammers I agree
posts should be looked at on a case-by-case basis but the
onus should be on the volunteer wanting something left up to
justify why a particular piece of spam is worthy otherwise
it just slows down the process of removing obvious spamming
like the stuff discussed above.

I've also been thinking that it might be a good idea to
think about having a separate ed policy section just for the
comments area. This is something I will add to the agenda
for the conference.

RnB,
Strypey

Quoting clare <clare at animal-liberation.org.nz>:

> i think posts that start off as corporate news reposts,
> with comments
> added in/ parts of the original article messed with ,
> then they should
> be hidden.  (unless they say clearly at the beginning
> they have modified
> the original)
> 
> 
> otherwise it's deliberate misinformation

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