[CIMC-work] Deleting posts from the newswire

[Ian Bicking]

ChrisGeovanis at aol.com wrote:
> Huh. Looked at the 'hidden' posts and found this one: 
> http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/37471/index.php
> "Bush must apologize for his lies, or we will kill our pets", by ... 
> John P. Wagner! Did somebody delete 37489 because it was a dupe? 

No, I think this other article was a complaint about the first article 
being hidden.  The hidden article was an article accusing CIMC of 
censorship.

> And if 
> so (Ian, yer thoughts, specifically) does this actually violate 
> editorial policy? In any event, we should clarify the difference between 
> 'hide' and 'delete', to the end of avoiding the 'delete' feature, (I 
> guess, but I dunno, what do people think...). 

The only reason to use delete is if you encounter a bandwidth thief -- 
someone who is posting images to CIMC that they link to from elsewhere 
(so they don't care if you hide it).  Or deleting your own articles, 
that's fine.  Dups would probably also be fine, though I'd be cautious 
in that case.

> Also, I ran a search 
> against 'Wagner' as 'author/provider' -- and the only hit that came up 
> was the 'hidden' post, not the deleted one. Does 'search' not show 
> 'deletes', even though the record of same lives on? Also, I appreciate 
> that the new code makes it easier to 'hide' comments that seem to 
> violate editorial policy and am fine with this, but sometimes it 
> disrupts a comments thread that might be better left standing, so I 
> would appeal to people to keep an eye on continuity issues where 
> appropriate.

I haven't found a way to find out more about deleted articles.  There is 
some evidence that remains in the database about them -- the reason for 
deleting.  But I only saw that because I had a link from before the 
article was deleted.  There must be some way to look at deleted 
articles, but I don't know what.

It does seem annoying that it's easy to delete from the article summary 
screen, but you have to go to individual articles to hide stuff.  It 
seems like it should be the other way around.

   Ian