[imc-scotland-discussion] Fwd: Re: New site progress

[Ulla]

I have dug around a bit on the docs and found these pages concernign the imc 
switzerland/rubbish bin debate (April 02) along with the other serious legal 
threats which changed imc policy quite a bit over the years:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/GlobalLegalAndMoreInfoPage


On Friday 28 Mar 2008 16:53, Tom Morton wrote:
> Ulla wrote:
> > Almost all indymedias don't have a seperate rubbish bin/hidden section
> > anymore because of the legal dispute concerning Imc Switzerland about
> > carrying holocaust denial, neonazi and antisemitic etc. crap in their
> > rubbish bin which was used by these arseholes to create their own "hidden
> > indymedia" for publishing their crap, linking directly to it as a
> > subsection and to articles in it. I think it was in 2002 or something,
> > ages ago - they were sued by some leftwing Jewish antifascist group, very
> > harmful that was - would need to digg that out again, should be somewhere
> > on docs.indymedia.org.
>
> Yes good point.
>
> > And that's the problem with not having a proper editorial interface- it
> > is much more difficult to have an oversight and to control spam and
> > abusive comments in articles which are not current anymore, but for
> > example several years old as you don't have the imediate oversight
> > anymore.
>
> Yup.
>
> I've added a link to the drupal comments administration interface, which
> will be visible to editors on the lefthand side just above 'log out'.
> Maybe this addresses the issue with comments?
>
> here is a direct link (you must be logged in as an editor):
>
> http://infoseed.co.uk/admin/content/comment
>
> I will look into getting the same functionality for articles. It isn't
> quite as simple as enabling access to the drupal article admin
> interface, because that would also allow bypassing the normal feature
> voting process.