[Seattle-editorial] please remove

[jl at u.washington.edu]

The number of active editorialists has been shrinking, no doubt. I perform newswire maintenance as often as I can, and put forward hide proposals that have been approved by default (i.e. by 24 hours' silence). I certainly could use hrlp from other ed. collective members. 

The NYC editorial policy is fine, but we already have a policy in place which is at least as powerful. I'm not aware of anyone among Seattle editorial folks making the kind of "anti-censorship" arguments you mention--I think it's mainly a problem of too few people participating in the work of newswire maintenance. If you or others are able to help combat the current newswire problems by re-activating your editorial membership, let me know and I'll help however I can.

Jonathan


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003,  anarch3m wrote:

> duplicate posting at:
> http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=29944&group=webcast
> of the orriginal at:
> http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=29941&group=webcast
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> I can no longer monitor the wire as the password has been changed.
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> Is ANYONE doing the equivalent of the "wire clerk" duties for the Seattle site?  I have seen no move to "respond" to National Alliance postings (etc), other than by myself, Bruce and some other, new and unknown online names.
> 
> I know...."what's National Alliance?"........
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> FYI:
> http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=65071&group=webcast
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> excerpt: 
> 
> When May A Post Be Hidden?
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> An “open publishing” system is founded, fundamentally, on trust. The editors of and participants in this project trust that other participants will use the newswire to publish news, or, at the least, intelligent and insightful commentary. But as New York Indymedia’s popularity has grown, so has the abuse of our open publishing system. Some of the abuse seems to be juvenile in nature; some it amounts to a deliberate attempt to destroy the project. What’s more, an unsystematic and scattershot moderation policy may have confused other readers, who might not be aware of what constitutes abuse and what constitutes news.
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> The New York IMC editorial collective, in order to maintain the integrity of the newswire and the media commons it creates for our community of participants, may "hide" posts to the Newswire when the content disregards the guidelines that have been put in place (see below).
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> **********end of excerpt
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> As some local members regard the open access policy to mean we are powerless to control what comes in the door, others continue to interpret any hides as censorship and ispso facto verboten.  This disregards a growing body of evidence that the site/space are on the way to becoming less than welcoming.
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> Well, only those who still spend time in the space, and in the online debates, and ask "why not" of those who don't use indy have a clue, or so it seems.
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> disgruntled walt
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