[Imc-uk-features] unhiding 374918

[maqui]

hi

On Wednesday, July 4, 2007, at 11:13  am, ben wrote:

> I'm also dubious about the value of the promoted wire
  ...

There seems to be a lots of people with the same view of the promoted 
wire, doesn't it?

...

>  The promoted wire is flawed. It is too slow in being
> updated so people will always need access to the un-premoderated wire 
> to
> see the latest new posts as soon as possible. And since the promoted 
> wire
> specifically excludes most event announcements, again, people must have
> access to the open wire. As it stands, few if anyone would choose to 
> read
> only the promoted wire so it fundamentally flawed and it's existence 
> is no
> reason to be slack about removing crap etc from the wire.

It is true that the promoted wire was introduced as a sort of 
experiment, and as such, it may be needed to review it again. As far as 
I remember it was introduced to try to highlight first hand reports as 
opposite to general rants, opinions and announcements. I kind of agree 
with the points ben mentions here, but i still think that there's a 
need to somehow highlight the efforts people do when reporting 
themselves, first-hand.

I can see the arguments for the open wire to be kept in the front page, 
but maybe the problem resides in having one wire only. Probably the 
solution could be in dividing the wire in different sections as it has 
been mentioned several times., all of them showing in the front page.

should we discuss this again? meanwhile i'll keep promoting posts that 
are:
* original, first hand reports on actions and other events
* good, original analysis"

basically because the way we implement OP in IMC-UK right now doesn't 
offer any other way to highlight the practice of what has sometimes 
been referred to as direct media.

maqui