[Imc-dc-editorial] articles posted without paragraph breaks

[old school]

yes it's ok to do technical fixes.  various ad hoc
fixes are already done, for glitches due to the
template, ie the title box doesn't like quotation
marks, ampersands, etc.

lots of people have written us emails to ask us to fix
spelling and mistakes, and lately we have responded.
if you are referring to fixes not requested by the
author, i still say fix it.  the title bar is our
fault, not theirs.

Further, i am also FOR deleting posts that are really
dangerous or abusive, ie
-porn - incident thursday, causing 2 email complaints
from the public 
-stealing bandwidth (very obvious attempts) 
-seriously problematic legally
-whatever else alan raised as examples

when alan raised this before, noone disagreed.  did
you want us to take a vote?  or do we want to again
try to get editorial in the same room and have a
meeting?



--- clarissa peterson <clarissa@anarquia.org> wrote:
> I've been noticing that a lot of people who post to
> the newswire choose 
> html format so they can use links and such, but they
> forget to enter 
> paragraph or break tags.  I think the reason for
> this is that some blog 
> applications let people use html but adds paragraph
> tags for them 
> automatically, and people who have used that type of
> blog might assume that 
> our publish page acts the same way.
> 
> Anyway, I added a sentence to publish.php3 that says
> "If your story is in 
> html format, you must add paragraph or break tags,
> they aren't entered 
> automatically."  Maybe that will help a bit.
> 
> Also -- this is relevant to editorial -- If I notice
> that someone's article 
> is all run together, I go in and add the paragraph
> tags.  When you go to 
> the edit story page, it still shows spaces between
> paragraphs, so it's easy 
> to see what the author meant to do.  Is it okay that
> I'm editing stories 
> without comment if I'm just fixing a "technical"
> error and going by what 
> the author's intentions were?
> 
> Clarissa
> 

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