[imc-scotland-discussion] editorial policy

[eerts at riseup.net]

Okay, so I have been sitting on this for awhile, but wanted to comment.

I had a read through of the new policy and think it is pretty damn good.

About the anti-humanist or whatever you want to call primitivist ideology
-- I had a BIG problem with the whole idea of censoring this. Personally I
have some sympathy for the 'anti-agriculturalist' platform. While I choose
to live in a city and to work with many groups, I think there is an
inherant problem with civilisation in general.... i wont go into my
thoughts just now or ever online as only over a pint are these things
worth discussing.

Anyway, I really dont think we should be TRYING to find ways of booting
any kind of discussion from the site as this makes us dogmatic... Just
good ways of keeping things about reporting and not personal politics --
totally agree with that and that personal attacks should not be buried in
articles and all...

Just thought I should flag up my feelings on this... want to be involve in
this and think that it is important not to exclude -- especially if we
want more readership... though I dont really know all the battles you have
had to deal with in the past...

Anyhow, hope all are well.

Stephen

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> This is my 2nd attempt to post this file. It's smaller now so should work.
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> Here's some additions, hopefully not so many as to make it unreadable.
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> Includes:
> * a short note about Creative Commons licensing
> * Comments: don't mix personal abuse with political points; replies to
> hidden comments may be themselves hidden.
> * Newswire: tighter definition of Spam to be clear it isn't just
> machine-generated / commercial. Add prohibition on linking to sites that
> violate some of the guidelines, e.g. by promoting holocaust denial.
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> The main issue I have with the new wording of the policy is the addition
> of
> the term "anti-humanist". Humanism can be a tightly defined philosophical
> position, a specifically anti-religious worldview, a view of humans as a
> generally progressive and positive thing, or a highly pro-rationalist (See
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humanism?r=75)
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> While I sympathise with the apparent attempt to make it easier to boot
> primitivist propaganda from the Newswire, this form of words is too broad
> to be meaningful or enforcable.
>
> I also tend to think that, while politically incoherent at best and
> genocidal in its implications at worst, the best way to deal with the
> current crop of anti-agriculturalists is political discussion combined
> with
> a tighter leash on their posts that contain personal or generalised abuse.
> (Hence my additions to the Comments policy.)
>
> The only thing more annoying than hopped-up dogmatists is hopped-up
> dogmatists with a persecution complex. Lets not give them the chance to
> scream "censorship," it'll only encourage them.
>
> chris h
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>
> Jon wrote:
>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>> I read the editorial policy that we have and it seems to me to be
>> inadequate, dated, and a little maundering in places.
>>
>> So i drafted a new editorial policy to get us started on creating an
>> up-to-date policy for the site. Please read, edit, comment, discuss.
>>
>> It would be great to get a new policy written.
>>
>> Jon
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> chris h
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