[Boston-editorial] Articles vs. Links to articles- new policy?

[Matthew Williams]

I often just move stuff like that to the Other Press. People are in the 
habit of posting entire articles in the Other Press, but it's main 
function is to provide links to interesting articles eslewhere 
(especially off the Indy Media system), whether or not they actually 
post the content of the article. -- Matt

On Mar 21, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> we get a fair number of articles that are more links
> than articles.  In a way these are almost
> advertisements for other peoples news sites and blogs.
>
>
> Heres an example:
>
> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34149/index.php
>
> The article is not even in this post, you have to go
> to the link to read the article.  If people go to the
> article it breaks the continuity of the use of our
> site.  I'm not so worried about links in general, I
> love links.  But I think if someone opens up a
> newswire item they should see something of substance.
> An article or an announcement of an upcoming event or
> at least a news blurb.
>
> We could have some sort of soft enforcement policy on
> this- by contacting the writers of these to say- hey
> post an article and THEN link to your blog.  We could
> give folks a number of chances to start doing this but
> then start hiding them if they don't.  It's not
> censorship but a little control over the form of our
> site.  They may not get as many links- but the links
> they do get would be on the merit of their articles
> and not the creation of curiousity with these annoying
> posts.
>
> What do other folks think?
>
> -Pete
>
>
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