[Imc-uk-features] [FEAT] London and Glasgow: Brown's 'Bombs'?

[Genny]

On the question of features going up at the same time...

Keeping the stuff that appears on the front page (abstract, links etc.) 
as short as possible, means that more features will be visible on the 
front page.  There are some features on the front page at the moment 
which take up my whole screen.  If the front page display was limited to 
just the title, photo and a short abstract, with all the links moved to 
the 'full article' section, there'd be a lot more room for several 
features to be visible in the first screen on the front page.  Would 
that help?

Re. notice before putting up features...

If giving notice to post features over a weekend is a problem, then I 
guess that it's important to make this clear in guidelines somewhere. 
But it could cause problems for people trying to get features up quickly 
where time is of the essence.

Re. politeness on list

I agree that rudeness isn't necessary.  We've all got a responsibility 
to think about how we express our feelings on email lists, because 
exchanges can so easily degenerate into slanging matches.

I've suggested to people newly involved in the cymru-imc-wales 
collective this weekend that it's a good idea to join this list as a 
preparation for doing adminning.  But I'm really very worried that 
they're going to sign up, see the tone of exchanges that goes on and run 
a mile!

Genny

WietsE wrote:
> guidoreports at riseup.net wrote:
>> Ah, so it was Chris that put this in the centre column. Well theres a
>> surprise. And already Chris' 'truther' mates are congratulating him for
>> 'showing some balls'.
> 
> As previously said, this feature was proposed well within the 24hr time 
> frame. Also I would say its very unnecessary to be rude to each other 
> when should all be recognizing the time and effort were putting into 
> indymedia stuff.
> 
> Thanks to Guido for his excellent pics and thanks chris for his feature 
> work.
> 
> Secondly people seem to have this thing about 'breathing space' for 
> features. Meaning that features are allowed to stay at the top for some 
> time before new features are posted. As far as I'm aware most people 
> scroll down the front page to look for stuff, rather than just look at 
> whats at the top. In my opinion its great if a lot is going on and two 
> features go up at the same time. I've never understood the need for 
> withholding from posting features for that reason.
> 
> Wietse
> 
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