[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Over zealous hiding?

[Sofia JarrinT]

Hmmm, not too sure about this one, Jon.  The  comment sounds down racist to me, and we have a clear policy on hiding  racist posts. Although I wasn't the one who hid it, I probably would've  anyway. 
  
  I can understand you wanting to reply to this person, but I'm afraid  that by leaving it up we would be disrepecting the community who  organized the event, no matter what you reply to him/her.   Moreover, it would probably incense someone else to post a nasty  comment, turning it into a flame war.
  
  peace,
  Sofia

"Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:  Hi,

just looked through the Parks article.  There are two hidden
comments.  The first by "Bob" is a bit debatable, it restates a point
made earlier without any new thought and would likely devolve into
name calling, so I'm OK with that though I personally would have left
itfor a bit or added a "warning" comment or soemhting.

the second one by R.Lee (robet E from the sound of it) I would like to
unhide:

"It's great to see morons flashing gang signs in your pictures. Great
way to show respect for Rosa Parks. It was also a great idea to have
the people who are the in the greatest need of getting an education
skip a day of school. BTW, how many people in the crowd had criminal
records ( refer back to flashing gang signs) ?"

There's something to this. It may just be perception that could be
corrected with discussion (which is now closed) or it could be real
ussed that should be addressd by the community.

The hiding comment is:

"Hidden by sally shears with code: Policy Violation
Notes: disruptive. not news."

Well it's a comment it needn't be news and while argumentative, I'd
say it's not purely disruptive.

Are those gang signs? I suspect this tool may be seeing the peace
signs as gang signs, but there's some I question.  I can't read boston
gang signs, and they're not any from my hold neigborhoods in LA even
if they were that was like 15years ago and things change.  What ever
the case you can't say gangs aren't a problem, you can say those
aren't gang signs, you can say the criminality comment is irrelevent,
you can say gangs are a result of hopelessness caused by
descrimination and economic opression.

There's alot to say to this post really, like these kids probably
learned more on the street that day than they do in a month of the
underfunded baby sitting that passes for public education in boston...

so I'd really like to hit the "display article" button and say some of
them, mostly around the education comment which I do feeel i know
something about.

-Jon
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