[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[ma adili]

I agree with Jeremy's SF codebase and moderated Newswire suggestions. I 
also know it's a bad time to do this, but the reality is it's likely 
not to be a good time for some time to come. Do we have any idea what 
will be required to do this? A timeline? Personnel notwithstanding, can 
a plan for this switch be developed...perhaps discussed tomorrow night?

Adili

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 12:20  PM, Jeremy Kahn wrote:

> 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
>
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