[Imc-uk-features] hiding comments

[Shiar]

I haven't been following comments much tbh, but i just wanted to say that
i agree with chrisc that we shouldn't be providing a platform for
pro-imperial trolls. As much as i think we shouldn't hide too much, i
agree with most of this sort of hiddens.

On Sat, March 24, 2007 2:03 am, Chris wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Fri 23-Mar-2007 at 10:32:42PM +0000, mini mouse wrote:
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>> 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:
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> https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365937.html?c=all
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>
> 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
>