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At 08:34 +0100 17/10/05, Roy Bard wrote:
>but I do think the newsire is being abused - and that there
>is an urgent need for a newswire that is aimed at those who engage in or
>support DA in the UK - which some of us believe is what IMC should be
>doing - perhaps this can be done through making the UK newswire a
>"promoted posts" newswire, with a clickthrough to the "open publishing"
>section - but something needs to happen soon......

Couldn't agree more...and just want to say ftp's been doing a 
terrific job cleaning the newswire lately.

I think we all agree something has to be done about the newswires - 
it's been cropping up on this list on and off for months, and there 
have been many valuable suggestions. I believe it was covered at 
Sheffield to some extent also (?)

But after only a year or so's involvement with IMC I've yet to 
discover how we turn suggestion into consensus into action - what is 
the process that makes things happen?

At 08:34 +0100 17/10/05, Roy Bard wrote:
>The problem is that is there is no consensus about what the newswire
should be doing

... which of course would give us a problem with "promoting posts" - 
what criteria do we use to promote them?

Promoting posts however does feel like a positive action, hiding 
posts a negative action. It could be that if we can sort out what the 
newswire is for, the option to promote as well as hide might make 
cleaning a balanced activity rather than a depressing process of 
censorship.

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