[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[Gentry Lange]

I like the policy, but what about them just changing their "handles" to keep
up this crap? And could we also word it to include others doing the same
thing rather than just "jake the snake"?

Gentry

-----Original Message-----
From: jonathan lawson [mailto:jonathan at indymedia.org]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:35 AM
To: g at art13.com; seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide


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