[imc-oxford-features] deselected loads

[ben]

owen at riseup.net wrote:
> Deselected these region spammages:
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2008/04/396439.html
> squat day of action - region spam

and in internal comments on admin:
> a1984 - unticked manchester
> c_merengo: stop spamming regions, this kind of thing is what UK indymedia is for!

Having now had this same article deselected for both manchester and
oxford it seems I must be confussed about what the regions are for.

The article in question is a summary of actions that took place around
the uk and beyond for the days of action for squats and autonomous
spaces on the 11th and 12th of april. The only regions ticked were
those in which reports had been posted to their newswire about local
action. The regions where no actions had been reported were not
selected.

In the case of Manchester IMC there was masses of newswire posts prior
to the days of action and although reports were slow coming in during
the following days there are at least two on the newswire now and I
was suprised when somebody saw fit to deselect the manchester topic
from the article summarising the actions. Within the last couple of
days a regional feature has gone up about the actions in manchester
(including a link to the summary article).

In the case of Oxford IMC, there were again many posts prior to the
days of action annoucing plans in Reading. Following the weekend there
was a nice article with photos saying how the actions went. That
remains on Oxford IMC without being deselected but the summary is
apparently spam.

The article sumarising the events that took place in different towns
and cities was posted as kind of geographical 'time-line' to
compliment and follow the feature about the days of action.  I ticked
only the regions in which actions had been reported so I fail to see
how this is spamming and believe it was a valuable article allowing
local people to see how local actions fitted into a wide context of
activities during the days of action.

If it is argued that the purpose of regional sites is to host content
that is SOLELY about that specific locality then it makes it
impossible to place articles into a national or international context,
so that can't be right and obviously I think this article should not
have been removed from those regions.


ben