Non-news/Hierarchy was Re: [Imc-uk-features] article hidden

[ekes]

frilby wrote:
> 327870 - Defend the uprising of the youth of France (hierarchy: marxist
> doggerel)

We leave up *far* worse than that on the newswire. Just because it is 
Marxist doggerel you bother to hide it? Yet leave the rest of the even 
less analytical drivel there?! I wouldn't promote it, but... Is it a 
hierarchical organisation using the newswire as a noticeboard as the 
guideline suggests?

I don't much like this posting, so it's actually a good time to talk 
about it. As I understand it a primary purpose of the agreed guideline 
is to stop the newswire degenerating into various groups noticeboard - 
and generally a repetition of many existing sites. There is also another 
guideline that stops 'notice board' postings from anyone else, non-news.

The actual hierarchy guideline states:

Hierarchy : *The newswire is designed to generate a news resource*, not 
a notice-board for political parties or any other hierarchically 
structured organizations.

Now the highlighted (with * *) section to me shouldn't be in Hierarchy 
at all - hierarchical organisations (be they the Greens, Trots or Trade 
Unions) can, if they try, post good stuff that isn't noticeboard 
postings - not that they often do. The highlighted section should be in 
non-news.

So what I am trying to say is this posting isn't news. It doesn't matter 
that it was posted explicitly by some sect. It most certainly doesn't 
matter that it was posted and takes a Marxist position.

Now where we draw the line (or if we draw the line, or how we draw 
lines, or how we present different lists) on non-news, as there is good 
analysis/comment that does help produce a news resource is a quite 
different (and worthwhile) conversation...

ekes