[Boston-editorial] poker

[Matthew Williams]

Actually, having gone through a bunch of the ads myself, I think 
Petrina's right--it is easier to delete than hide them, so why 
shouldn't we do it?

If they were just be posted to old newswire posts I would agree that we 
shouldn't worry about it, but they're being posted to old features, 
which is a slightly different thing in my mind--we should keep removing 
them.

-- Matt

On May 20, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> 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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