[IMC-pgh-editorial] rule proposal: articles from and for non-pittsburgh

[David Meieran]

so you are proposing that we should, in effect, eliminate the "elsewhere" 
category? that strikes me as being a little too extreme.

as an alternative, perhaps we could more consistently enforce the 
"repost" rule -- that would eliminate most of the clutter in the 
"elsewhere" category. 

in addition, we could add to the publish form a line that says "please 
don't use this site to repost articles" or something like that.

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Daniel P wrote:

> I propose we amend the editorial policy for the website.
> 
> http://pgh.indymedia.org/process/openpub.php#ed
> 
> The proposal is that we amend this rule:
> 
> - have no relevance whatsoever to our area (ie., an IMC meeting in 
> Germany).
> 
> to read:
> 
> - have no content that is specific to our area, and is written by an 
> author that is known to not be from our area.
> 
> The idea is that if you are from anywhere and are writing independent news 
> that's relevant to our area, it's okay.  If you're from our area and are 
> writing independent news about anywhere, that's okay too.  But independent 
> news written by people who are not from our area for people who are not 
> from our area clutters the global newswire to the point where it's 
> useless.
> 
> We obviously still have to respect the right of people to contribute 
> anonymously.  But it's not the anonymous stuff I'm worried about.  It's 
> when there are people who are identifying themselves as being from another 
> area/a group from another area then I think they've crossed the line into 
> something we shouldn't support.
> 
> I think we should maintain and maybe improve our displaying RSS feeds of 
> other sites to remain connnected to the outside world.
> 
> My understanding of the process for dealing with this proposal, coming 
> largely from talking to Andy at the meet-n-greet, is that the editorial 
> collective is empowered to set rules for the website.  I would like to see 
> if we can reach consensus as the editorial collective on this issue, and 
> if we can, we should represent it at an IMC general meeting to see if 
> there are any concerns we can address.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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