[IMC-bristol] newswire abuse

[Tony Gosling]

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This could do with a full discussion at the meeting on thursday 24th I reckon.

As you probably know I think we're becoming a tiresome mouthpiece for Ian
Bone and his political ambitions. But I don't want to censor him.

Tony
0117 944 6219

At 20:29 18/04/03 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I agree the newswire is getting clogged up with this shit and its reputation
>could suffer. The question is what to do about it. As Ian points out, there
>are two areas that these sorts of posts could contravene the editorial
>policy:
>- an " attempt to monopolise the news wire "
>- supporting "party politics"
>
>But IMHO, it is difficult to claim that 'arealbristolian' and 'aspidistra'
>are monopolizing the newswire while saying that other regular posters of
>genuine interest such as anarchist606 and Bristolian are not...if we can
>show that the former are posting more often than the latter, I'd say fair
>enough to boot them off.
>Supporting party politics - the posts seem more concerned with sad and
>pathetic abuse of the Bristolian, rather than actual support of any
>political party.
>
>The only grounds I can therefore see is the category of  'abusive
>lifestyles'...what do people think?
>Otherwise, much as I'd like to find grounds for getting rid of this rubbish,
>I can't find anything which gives grounds to hide these articles...perhaps
>the best solution is to work on another re-working of the ed. policy?
>
>C
>---
>
>
>
>hello
>
>There seems to be alot of anti-Bristolian pre-election drivel being posted
>up on to the newswire.  Its motivation seems to be political and an attack
>on the Bristolian party in the run up to the Mayday elections. In my
>opinion this is neither news and seems a blatant abuse of the news wires
>intended function...  To the extent that BIMC's  reputation & integrity
>could be jeopardized if this continual  hijacking and monopolizing of the
>newswire continues.
>
>There seems to be two main offenders, both anonymous - one called
>'arealbristolian' and 'aspidistra' .   So should we do something about it ?
>
>I propose to start hiding this stuff as I believe it contravenes the
>current editorial guidelines.  The following articles are good
>examples...These were posted up on wednesday
>
>http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5134&group=webcast
>http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5124&group=webcast
>
>Today we had another
>one
>http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5166&group=webcast
>i've already taken the liberty & hidden this one..I'm gonna write something
>to this effect on the newswire explaining why ...
>
>
>Your opinion is needed on this matter so please post a reply
>
>
>cheers
>ian
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