[Boston-editorial] deleting comments?

[Matthew Williams]

I guess they're trollish enough to hide. They're not say anything 
constructive--just making snide comments.

It's important to distinguish between hiding and deleting comments. 
With comments we have hidden, people can go to the hidden articles page 
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/hidden/index.php and click on the 
link to see them. When we delete articles, a log of the deletion 
appears on the deleted articles page 
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/deleted/index.php but there's no 
way to see them. (A logged in editor can see deleted articles at 
http://boston.indymedia.org/editor and browsing through the listings 
for those marked deleted.)

We generally only hide articles. We only delete things in extreme 
circumstances--postings by those who have be personae non gratae 
(Stephen DeVoy, KOBE, and Flipside) and posts containing downloads 
(audio files, video files, PDFs or Word documents) that are racist or 
otherwise bigoted (some white supremacist groups were posting such 
downloads to the site and then linking to them from their own websites. 
Even after they were hidden, people could still download the materials. 
Since we have no desire to serve as an archive service for white 
supremacists, we began deleting such posts.). When we delete files, we 
select the "mark as deleted" option--that way we can undelete it if 
need be and there's a record of the deletion available for all to see 
on the deleted articles page. If you choose purge, it's lost forever.

-- Matt

On Apr 21, 2005, at 2:18 PM, petrina wrote:

> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/35376/index.php
>
> are the comments here worth deleting?
>
> i'm just wondering for my own reference what i am
> allowed to get rid of.
>
> they seem just stupid to me. petrina
> ---------------
>
> April 20, 7-9pm Activist Session w Chuck Turner
>
> by Amatul Hannan
> Email: amatul (nospam) aquariiarts.com (verified)
> 19 Apr 2005
> Modified: 07:36:29 PM
>
> Activist/Organiser session w Chuck Turner (GreenParty,
> Boston City Council)
>
> Activists, street action organizers, street theater
> participants - those who speek truth to power and take
> it to the streets:
>
> Please do Join us
> 7-9pm, Wed April 20th
> Community Church
> 565 Boylston St, Boston MA
> in an informal session with Boston city Councillor
> Chuck Turner (Green)
>
> RSVP w any questions/ for more info:
> Amatul (at) aquariiarts.com
>
> Comments
>
> Re: April 20, 7-9pm Activist Session w Chuck Turner
>
> by xxxx
> (No verified email address)
> 19 Apr 2005
>
> well, this promises to be hilarious.
>
> This Just In!
>
> by Rupert
> (No verified email address)
> 20 Apr 2005
>
> Become a super activist! Know more about Nicaragua
> than your friends. Be the first on the block to get a
> cool new Anybody But Bush 2008 pin. Be a vegetarian,
> and tout it! Recognize your inner guilt - talk to a
> token black guy.
>
> Learn the skills that you need to fulfill your
> romantic fantasy of liberating the poor masses!
>
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