[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[Jeremy Kahn]

Gentry Lange wrote:

>Ok, well here is another idea, or two.
>
>1. Have a Moderated list option, which users can turn on and off, which is
>the same newswire, but edited to contain real news (news is definable). It
>could be set to unmoderated by default, and a link or drop down box could
>simply invite users to turn it on.
>
I like this idea. Structuring/sorting/filtering the newswire is an 
important idea. I think that there's no argument there.

As far as I know, the obstacle is technical. I think we need to move to 
a "modern" Active codebase before we can do that, and the biggest 
problem there is the database migration (of articles -- this is 
unrelated to the volunteer/contact/donor DB project I'm working on).

Somebody correct me if I'm wildly off here, but I think that if we could 
get the Seattle site onto the sf-active codebase, then we would have 
much more freedom to implement these sorts of suggestions.  For the 
record, I agree that an optionally-moderated newswire (so long as the 
unmoderated view was also available) would be a great thing for the 
Seattle IMC.

-jeremy