[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[Jeremy Kahn]

Troy Prouty wrote:

> Here is an example of the things I would hide

Troy -- would you *please* say something about why you would hide 
*each*? It's not that hard to add a few words. after each pasted link. 
 To follow our own policies, we need to have a reason to hide each 
article we hide, not just "I don't like it".  

I don't like many of these either: let me model what I'm talking about.

> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25966&group=webcast

muslims at prayer, photoshopped to look like coke bottles. Clever 
political cartoon. What's the problem here? Is this a duplicate? We can 
hide those without discussion if you see them. Please point them out as 
such to the list (we always hide the newer of the duplicates).

> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25941&group=webcast

Obnoxious faux pledge drive to raise money for parody statue of Jim 
McDermott. Title uninformative ("Please help!").  We don't have a policy 
to ban obnoxious, unless perhaps it's a "useful space" question.  

>
> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25932&group=webcast

Living Dead Liberals -- right wing post claims that (Dd)emocrats and 
leftists are irrelevant.  Lots of "insurrectionary response" and one 
leftist asking us to trace his/her ISP (Gentry responds nobly and 
accurately that that's out of line).

> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25928&group=webcast

okay, this is an ad. Hide that sucker.  In fact, our policy says we 
don't have to wait. I've already hidden it.

> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25923&group=webcast

a request by Sarah Jean for art submissions to the IMC. what's wrong 
here? Perhaps the style isn't super newsy, but I think it's relevant and 
useful and fits right into the community we want to create, which makes 
it okay with me.

> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25922&group=webcast

loon thinks that Israeli snipers killing and maiming peace activists is 
just fine, cause it's good that pinkos are being killed. Perhaps this is 
an attack on "safe space" I'd consider hiding.

> http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25921&group=webcast

Spokescouncil meeting at Polestar.  Seems very low-content. Hide?



See how easy it is?

--jeremy