[Seattle-editorial] ProActive Newswire Hiding and New Volunteers who can help

[Gentry Lange]

At the last Editorial Meeting, and subsequent General Meeting it was decided
that we would start proactively monitoring the newswire in order to make it
useful to the Progressive Activist Seattle Community once again. This has
been talked about at several editorial meetings, and was consensed upon
Tuesday.

To this end, we would like to draft a new policy, and so here's one for
consideration:

1. Non-news (proactive hide)
2. Babble, or jibberish (proactive hide)
3. Hate Speech, or inflammatory speech (proactive hide, i.e. Kill all..., or
endless name calling in commentary)
4. Specific posters identified by the group (proactive hides)

We might also consider making the newswire, Seattle Only News for awhile?
But I am not proposing this at this time, as code fixes could make this less
of an issue.

Proactive Story Hiding (Clear violations of IMC policy)

1. Go to a newswire story that is a clear offense
2. Click Administration
3. Once you find that page, you enter a password
4. Then you click edit, or hide
5. Email the editorial list that you hid a story

Hiding Comments
6. Click "show comments" to see commenst, click "edit" on clear offenses of
policy in comments. Delete the comment by deleting everything including a
poster's name. The comment is effectively removed. If someone knows of a
better way to do this, please post it to the list.

[I am personally against emailing the list for removing a comment
completely. Others should chime in if they care about this. Basically
deleting hate speech makes you vunerable via our email logs to
indentification by people the group decides needs to be hidden, as our email
lists are publicly searchable, and I don't want editors to be singled out.]

Password
If you can't make it to Tuesday meetings, the group can have a
representatvie meet with you for coffee, or another time at the IMC? At this
point, I, Gentry, will be that person, and can meet evenings and early
morning. All we need is a computer with an Internet connection.

Gentry
206.498.3937 cell