[Seattle-editorial] My two cents on spam issue

[Jeremy G Kahn]

sheelanagig at juno.com wrote:

>After reading all the posts on this spam thing and viewing the articles
>in question, I agree with Judy and Gentry, these things have no content
>and need to go. NOW. ASAP. I understand Jeremy's concerns, but I think
>these posts meet the requirements for hiding. 
>
Just for the record, I was *not* arguing that we shouldn't take down 
stupid posts.

I maintain -- along with Jason and Gentry -- that we need to hold 
ourselves accountable for doing this. At the moment, there's only one 
way onto the website editing, and so there's no log of who's doing 
hiding except what we keep ourselves. For this reason I think that -- 
until we have a new codebase working -- we need to send an email. If 
you're going and hiding things -- and that's *Great*! -- then please 
just keep a list of the ones you're hiding and the reason, which can be 
a single sentence.  Then e-mail this to the list.

That's all I ask for.

>They are ridiculous,
>incoherent, have absolutely no content at all...they are like a Jerry
>Springer show on our site! No, those all go over the line of what is
>news, or something worthy of posting on an IMC site...I am willing to
>help write the responses to any negative reactions to the hidings, as I
>feel the hidings are justified. Completely.
>  
>
So do I.

--jeremy