[Imc-uk-features] how to deal with this, was Re: 374918

[Shiar]

I was just thinking that some long-awaited technical improvements on the
site (especially the Reposts nw & publish page and the new startpage)
would have saved us a lot of discussion and time!

On Tue, July 3, 2007 12:04 pm, mish wrote:
> Hello
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> I'll try to keep this short :)
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> First off I agree with yoss and maqui's analysis.
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> But indymedia covers a range of people, so I do not want to entirely
> exclude people questioning the official story of 911 etc.
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> So, I'm thinking off the top of my head here (so please cut me some
> slack, just starting to explore some ideas) maybe we could hide
> unsubstantiated rants, but leave posts that have at least some hard facts,
> or well laid arguments/analysis.
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> We could give more lee way to posts about events near to grass roots
> campaigns such as those that Yoss mentions, and less lee way to posts about
> what the state is doing, mainstream politics etc.
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> Not sure how workable this is, so I'm very open to modifications of this
> proposal, and I'm sure we'd all have fun trying to work out which side of
> the line various posts fall ...
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> Think I'll stop there and see what others think
> mish
>

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Shiar