[Imc-nh-editorial] bounty hunting in the elsewhere section

[Rob Wolff]

Agreed.  I say delete it, and the sooner the better.  This is a little 
disturbing.

When I get a chance, I'll investigate further using the Indymedia Network 
feed in place of the elsewhere newswire.  It's definately possible, it'll 
just take some time.

rob


On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Nick Copanas wrote:

> I recommend we remove this from the newswire.
>
> <http://nhindymedia.org/newswire/display/2620/index.php>
>
> Also, as I have said before, I think we need to change the elsewhere section 
> of the newswire or get rid of it.  Ideally, elsewhere would allow local 
> people and regular site users to post commentary about the wider world. 
> However it has become a site for what are effectively spam articles clogging 
> the newswires on a dozen or more other IMC's.  I suspect, too, that many of 
> these are posted automatically, via a script. I think we either need to 
> target these posts by requiring that elsewhere posts already carried widely 
> on the indymedia network should be deleted to make room for NHIMC users, or 
> we should get rid of elsewhere and replace it, as Rob suggests, with 
> Indymedia features.
>
> Nick
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