[Imc-uk-features] hiding comments

[Chris]

Hi

On Sun 25-Mar-2007 at 02:48:22PM +0100, Ilyan wrote:
> No site that hides posts from neo-cons, cops, and
> zionists, or from the BNP or the National Front, or
> Hitlerites or Stalinists should lay claim to Open
> Publishing.  

But I don't think you are then in favour of open
publishing because you have argued for the removal of
copyrighted corporate material in the past, before we have
even been threatened for having it on the site.

I expect that you would also favour the removal of illegal
content... So it's not a matter of *if* to draw the line
it's a matter of *where* to draw the line...

> The benefit of open publishing is that you have the
> enemies public statements so that your arguments against
> them are soundly based.  It is no good getting abusive
> about them when your arguments are unsoundly based, or
> based on lies.

I do have some sympathy for this but what happens when
those people posting in favour of Empire etc have more
time and resources than we do? The same as what happened
to Norway IMC (I think it was Norway) -- the site becomes
dominated by the politics we oppose and ceases to play a
progressive role, more peopel stop using it, people stop
admining it and it's dead...

> It might be acceptable if the front page carried
> information so that anyone could read the hidden
> comments - at least how to use ?c=all should be
> mentioned in the place in the Guidelines that leads to
> View all posts to see the hidden articles.

Yeah, perhaps.

> Moderators should pay much more attention to the
> Guideline that says what MAY be hidden.  You do not have
> to hide it.

Sure, it's a balancing act, different IMC admins have
different views on how much should be hidden...

Chris

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