[Boston-editorial] right wing spam on boston imc

[Pete Stidman]

Thanks Jan,

Occasionally we are slow to get to some comments and
hide them, so some of your feelilng may come from the
fact that we take a while.  

Assuming that's not the case however, it is very
difficult for us to come up with guidelines for our
editors in hiding these folks that do not also run the
risk of hiding legitimate comments.  Since we have a
number of volunteer editors, we need guidelines to
ensure politics do not begin to dominate that decision
making process.  

I do think we can do it better and get rid of more
junk, but patience may be required.  

One new idea that will depend on how soon we can get
the technology rolling is a legion of deputized
community editors that will be able to log on and vote
on hiding stuff or report stuff to the editors (a la
craigslist).  

This may take a while to get, but it sounds promising.


-Pete

 
--- jdichter at student.umass.edu wrote:
> 
> 
> matthew williams recently asked people to email this
> address commenting on what
> we think of the editorial actions against right wing
> spam on the boston imc
> newswire. i think it's way too lenient with both
> pointlessly negative as well as
> hateful and politically inappropriate comments. open
> debate is one thing,
> trolling is totally another.
> 
> jan dichter
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