[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[Troy Prouty]

I think the issue is not left or right wing - I think both views can be 
expressed and not cause problems - What I think is we should watch all forms 
of stuff coming in - Lack of content - needs eliminated - Stop that is far 
from the truth - Just used to anger - Eliminated.

It is not enough to watch for names - They can change those.

The hard part is it will take a lot of work and every new post will have to 
be looked at.






>From: "Gentry Lange" <g at art13.com>
>Reply-To: <g at art13.com>
>To: <seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide
>Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:54:27 -0700
>
>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
>
>
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