[Boston-editorial] flamewars

[TL]

Though as you noted Matt, I understand the frustration
I would wouldn't support all-out deletion like weve
done in the past. I really sorta wish I didn't respond
how I did, as you wrote, get baited. and also
admittedly, out of sheer annoyance, I may have added
some fuel to the flamewar in getting carried way,
paticularly with 'Zoltar'. nonetheless im opposed to
taking those measures that weve done in the past at
least at this time. I think those measures should be
done as sparingly as possible. These aren't Flipsides.

-TimL
--- 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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