[Boston-editorial] poker

[Pete Stidman]

yeah- I really don't think it's neccesary,  You're up
against a machine.  I tried to keep up for a while and
they just keep coming and coming and coming.  

We probably have better things to do with our time....

-Pete


--- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Petrina, I wouldn't get too worried about labelling
> these things 
> properly when you hide them. If you mislabel
> something when you hide, 
> it you have to unhide it and then rehide it to
> relabel it.
> 
> As for deleting the poker ads, I can see a reason to
> do that--if 
> they're spamming our site to boost their Google
> standings, purging 
> their posts from the system will eliminate those
> links. I don't know if 
> it's really worth the effort though. I'm perfectly
> happy to wait till 
> we get the Drupal site up and put the spamblocker
> into play.
> 
> -- Matt
> 
> On May 20, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:
> 
> > This was on the tech list a while back.
> >
> > It's spam, and for now were living with it because
> it
> > does no harm to the look of the site and our new
> > website, to be completed soon, has a spam blocker.
> >
> > -Pete
> >
> > --- TL <saoirse1220 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> this was exactly the issue i was gonna raise as
> >> well,
> >> regarding deletion rather than hiding. im for it
> >> what
> >> do others think?
> >> --- petrina <petrinavegan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> hi there,
> >>>
> >>> i logged in today to expire the razorwire, i
> >> figured
> >>> since the workshop was yesterday i should do
> >>> that.
> >>>
> >>> and when i was there there were all these poker
> >>> articles and i'm confused b/c in the editor
> >>> interface it didn't look like they had been
> hidden
> >>> but they weren't showing up on the site. i am
> >>> just wondering why or how that would happen. (i
> >> was
> >>> not logged in so it wouldn't have to do with
> >>> my threshold i don't think.)
> >>>
> >>> so anyway i hid them, the most recent batch
> >> anyway,
> >>> i know there's been a lot of them, and i
> >>> forgot to use the pulldown menu to say
> advertising
> >>> and i went back to try and change from 'other'
> >>> to 'advertising' i couldn't figure out how to do
> >>> that.
> >>>
> >>> wouldn't it be easier if we just deleted all
> these
> >>> poker articles? you can use the click box at
> >>> the end of each row instead of going into each
> one
> >>> to hide it?
> >>>
> >>> so i guess that's 3 different questions.
> >>>
> >>> any advice/help/assistance would be great!
> thanks,
> >>> petrina
> >>> petrina
> >>>
> >>>
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