[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[jonathan lawson]

Requires some discussion (not this particular post, but the whole lot of 
them). So here's a quick concrete proposal to get the discussion started:

Proposal: to hide the current wave of right-wing articles and comments 
associated with "Jake the Snake," "Mark W." and similar.

These posts have become very frequent in the last week--a troll 
entertaining himself by goading and insulting readers and journalists who 
are posting legitimate stories, esp. local anti-war stories. Posts also 
include numerous reposts from the National Review and other right-wing 
magazines.

In total, these posts constitute an attack on the newswire intended to 
reduce the newswire's usefulness as an information resource. This is a 
violation of our editorial policy principle #4. The comments in particular 
also violate provision #2, "safe space," by creating an environment where 
anyone publishing an anti-war piece can expect to be met by a barrage of 
obscenities from this joker.

As we have done successfully in the past with two trolls (J.C./Badass and 
Robert Meade "Bobby" "Israel" Deaf Messenger), we should identify these 
posts as a class which violates our editorial policy, hide the existing 
examples, and be prepared to hide additional posts on sight which fit into 
the same group, defined as follows:
<Posts which appear to be associated with the right-wing troll "Jake the 
Snake," and which contain abusive language and/or attempt to clog the 
newswire with pre-published right-wing views from other publications.>


At 01:40 AM 4/14/2003 -0700, Gentry Lange wrote:
> From "Jake the Snake"
>
>http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=26018&group=webcast
>
>His messages are becoming increasingly hostile. Let's hide this stuff
>please.
>
>Gentry