Fwd: [Boston-editorial] new policy on personal attacks

[Matthew Williams]

Pete sent this reply to me and I guess he forgot to send it to the 
list. I think it's a good suggestion. -- Matt

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com>
> Date: June 12, 2005 10:30:41 PM EDT
> To: Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [Boston-editorial] new policy on personal attacks
>
> what constitutes a personal attack is somewhat
> ambiguous so It would be good to start this process
> together.  How bout for the firest while, people post
> links of personal attacks to this list so were all on
> the same page with it.
>
> -Pete
>
>
>
> --- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all --
>>
>> A thought on our new policy on hiding posts
>> containing personal
>> attacks: Because it is so new and personal attacks
>> are so distressingly
>> common, I'm thinking we should phase the policy in.
>> In response to one
>> post that violated this policy, I just posted what
>> was essentially a
>> warning, saying that we will soon begin hiding such
>> posts. I think if
>> we get more of such posts, we should hide them, but
>> at first post a
>> note saying that we have hidden them and why. After
>> we do this a couple
>> times, most people will presumably be familiar with
>> the policy and we
>> won't need to explain it. Does that make sense?
>>
>> -- Matt
>>
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