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

[Pete Stidman]

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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