2nd Re: [Boston-editorial] Screening comments

[Matthew Williams]

I went back in and added something specifying the comments being 
responded to are transphobic, as you suggested.

People can still see the deleted stuff in question, by looking for the 
original comments on the hidden articles page. It's not like they're 
gone forever.

-- Matt

On Apr 22, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> Interesting dilemma, I guess I wouldn't have deleted
> the stuff in the quotes, because maybe now it's hard
> to understand what the person was explaining.(plus you
> have deleted them vs. just hiding them)  It's good to
> put in the note that he/she was responding to now
> hidden stuff tho, you might even express the gist of
> the hidden stuff by describing them as transphobic
> comments or something....
>
> -Pete
>
>
> --- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Hello all --
>>
>> A quick question about something I did about which
>> I'd like feedback. I
>> hide the offensive, transphobic comments the poster
>> was calling our
>> attention to. However, someone responded to them,
>> explaining what
>> transgenderism is actually about. In doing so, they
>> quoted the
>> offensive comments, which are below:
>>
>> "A transgender lesbian is someone who woke up one
>> morning after the
>> operation and said oops."
>>
>> "I gues that makes Feinberg a ..... "Kyke"
>>
>> I left the post up with a note that the author was
>> responding to now
>> hidden posts, but deleted the offensive comments she
>> was quoting.
>> Normally, we don't delete material from people's
>> posts, but I was
>> deleting quotes and left the substance of the post
>> intact. Now, should
>> I have done this? Or should I go paste these
>> comments back in? Or
>> should I past them back in and hide the whole post?
>>
>> It felt like the right thing to do, but it didn't
>> quite fit with
>> policy, so I wanted to check in with people.
>>
>> -- Matt
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2005, at 3:38 PM, steph simard wrote:
>>
>>> In the open newswire post "Colorado State
>> University attempts to
>>> muzzle transgender lesbian Leslie Feinberg..."
>> (4/20/05) there are
>>> offensive and transphobic comments that I believe
>> go against your
>>> Principles of Unity, and should therefore be
>> deleted.
>>>
>>> - Steph Simard
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