[Boston-editorial] flamewars

[Pete Stidman]

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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