[Boston-editorial] poker

[Pete Stidman]

We can,

But the tech team seems to think it doesn't matter, so
why do it?  

Time is precious.

We're all on our own time though so to each his/her
own... no big deal.

-Pete


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

> 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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