[IMC-Boston-Discuss] purging the Editorial list & games

[Sofia JarrinT]

Sounds like a larger discussion than just online.
Maybe we should bring it up at the General Mtg?  Jon,
is there a better day for you to meet w/us?

--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Sofia
> JarrinT wrote:
> :Well, because I know that trolls are constant
> lurkers
> :on that list and then bring up
> discussions/decisions
> :we make on the editorial list on the site... 
> 
> Well that's transparency isn't it.  Granted the
> discussion usually
> aren't discussions but sidways attacks that are only
> intelligable if
> you were already part of the conversation...
> 
> If the discussion archives ar public this problem
> won't go away.  If
> they are private then we become a secretive cabal.
> 
> I think the *right* place to discuss the editorial
> policy is on the
> editorial list and anyone who's interested in doing
> so (civilly)
> should do so here.  Be that as it may it seems that
> some people are
> intent on discussing it on the site, to my mind both
> are equally
> public so I can't quite understand why.  But if this
> is the case
> perhaps we should try and create a space on the site
> for discussion
> about policy?
> 
> That way it's in the same place (more or less) as
> the main content
> which seems to be important to some, but is seperate
> enough that it
> doesn't compete for space with the newswire.
> 
> -Jon
> 


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