[Seattle-editorial] Complaint on Newswire

[typist at speakeasy.net]

Removing those Icke posts off into their own little file (because they are mostly comment after comment) sounds like a plan to me.  Do we have a mechanism to do that?  It would be great to free up the newswire to the more diverse posts so they don't "fall off so fast" and get lost in the shouting.


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> From:  anarch3m [mailto:anarch3m at lycos.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2003 03:45 AM
> To: seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org, typist at speakeasy.net
> Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] Complaint on Newswire
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> No comments mean no readers, or readers who were not engaged to any degree...and both are , to the author, news of ones own childs death.
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> As per the specifics- Icke (and probably some of the IMC Victoria reposts, which are now migrated to the global wire)  "yeah, whatever."  but I have an issue with the SPACE on the OPENWIRE getting hogged by these anti-icke posts.  Consolodate them is my andwere, and in the earliest post space, to clear the real estate for real stories of events here in P.S. 
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> The featureing of good articles is fine with me, though I prefer to keep some segregation for this cause, just as I'd like a space reservation for presspass holders.
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> See yall tuesdays....
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> walt
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> DATE: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 04:23:01
> From: typist at speakeasy.net
> To: seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
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> >I just wanted to discuss the complaint on the newswire "Failure of Editorial Collective" post.  A couple of editors responded (you guys were too kind!).  But I don't think this guy had a legitimate complaint.  I didn't notice any spam.  Or anything that went against our editorial policies.  
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> >I think he just didn't like something he read and fired off.  I assume he was talking about the Icke talk.  I'm kind of impressed by the back and forth ruckus it's inspired.  Shows a lively newswire.  Do others agree/disagree?
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> >Something Walt wrote about the "editors' pick" monitoring the newswire in the past, prompts me again to say, I would love to see more pulling off of good local articles to the center column (in the manner we've discussed).  Also at the general meeting Sheri mentioned something about wanting to see IMC be more a community resource.  I think the feature section would be great for that. Not that it couldn't have national stuff as well.  But I'd love to see the local focus be really strong. I'd like to see us be a better news source than say the local evening news--fortunately that shouldn't be too difficult.
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> >Cheers, Judy
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