[Imc-uk-features] hiding comments

[Chris]

Hi

On Fri 23-Mar-2007 at 10:32:42PM +0000, mini mouse wrote:
> Comments are always a contentious issue, I wish we
> didn't support them on imc but there you go.
> 
> 365937 in particular has a lot of hidden comments,
> reading it makes it particularly clear this has happened
> but of course with no explanation.
> 
> Seems to me none of the hidden comments were that
> appalling, I think we should be a little bit more
> relaxed about this stuff.

People cam look at this here:

  https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365937.html?c=all

I agree that it makes the comments that are left make less
sense since they are replies to hidden comments... I don't
really have a good answer to this...

The first comment is from someone who *only* posts
per-imperial comments, *always* -- if you have admin
access search comments for their name using the author
field. They are generally subtle-ish -- like sowing doubt
rather than blatently arguing the MoD line but... of
course they might well just be a reader of the site who
supports the Empire rather than being someone who paid for
these comments and of course we have to assume this in the
absence of any evidence... But I think they should be
hidden because of this record.

The other comments by "." are not so bad but are along the
same lines, perhaps they should be unidden, but personally
I'm fed of of pro-establishment / pro-main stream media
type comments -- giving these views a platform isn't what
I think IMC is for, but perhaps it is better to let some
stay if they are argued against, but then do we want to
have the same debates with these trolls every day... don't
we have better things to do...?

While we are on this subject a few people have expressed
an interest in working on a "Disinformation, Propergander
and Information Warfare" feature and we are going to set
up a private wiki to work on this, it'll probably take a
few months to write...

Chris

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