[Boston-editorial] flamewars

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Amen Pete. 
--- Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Actually I feel that both you and Tim are being
> drawn
> into very dangerous territory.  I think that
> especially on the black panther article you were
> unnessecarily heavy handed matthew.  I agree with
> your
> side of the argument of course, but by censoring you
> gave sid credibility he wouldn't have had otherwise.
>  
> 
> I saw that post earlier and let it go since most
> would
> ignore it.
> 
> We need to take a stand some places, but we have to
> be
> careful and keep the bar fairly low or else we will
> be
> criticized by right wingers for being very heavily
> biased.  I think we should avoid that possibility.
> 
> The thing to do would have be refute their claims by
> asking for solid proof.  And then deconstructing
> their
> answers.  We must prevail with reason, not
> censorship.
>  I t looks bad on us otherwise.  It looks like we
> are
> trying to hide something.
> 
> -Pete
> 
> 
> --- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Hello all --
> > 
> > We seem to have a couple of trolls going by the
> > names of Zoltar and Sid 
> > who are provoking flamewars, perhaps deliberately.
> > Both Tim and I have 
> > taken the bait--see the features at 
> >
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/33529/index.php
> > and 
> >
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/33596/index.php
> > 
> > respectively. For the most part, what they're
> saying
> > either doesn't 
> > violate policy or falls into a gray area. Given
> the
> > trouble they've 
> > been causing though, I would like to propose that
> > they be classified 
> > under the "disruptive individual" clause of our
> > editorial policy and 
> > all posts by them be hidden, as we've done with
> > other trouble-makers in 
> > the past. Do you all think this makes sense? Or am
> I
> > reacting too 
> > quickly? Should we let them post a little longer
> and
> > see if they keep 
> > on provoking flamewars or if these two sets of
> posts
> > are just 
> > aberrations?
> > 
> > -- Matt
> > 
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