[CIMC-work] M4 center panel and trolls

[Ian Bicking]

ChrisGeovanis at aol.com wrote:
> Super finally, in the interest of full disclosure, on the rare occasions 
> after the new code deployment that I've 'hidden' posts, I've NEVER 
> actually cited a reason for same. Maybe we should just work to consense 
> on the notion that whoever hides a post should take a minute to make a 
> note stating why...something really short and simple like "troll", 
> "editorial violation", "no no no", or other appropriate keyword might be 
> fine. Or maybe this is a really tedious and stupid idea (particularly 
> since I think we've worked well on the principle of mutual trust and 
> maximum empowerment re our approach to 'hiding' so far). Great thoughts, 
> people?

I don't think it's as big a deal to say why you hid an article, because 
someone who's interested can always look at the article and usually the 
problem is apparent.  It's only such a big problem when you delete an 
article, because then no one can look at the original article.  If you 
don't think the problem will be immediately apparent, then it's probably 
a good idea to write why.  There's a select box for standard reasons -- 
though again, if it's a standard reason it probably will be apparent 
from the article itself.

If, say, we had decided to hide the Israeli flag/swastica image (so that 
it would still show up in the article, but not in the media gallery), a 
good explanation of reasons would have been warranted.

   Ian